At just a molecule thick, it's a new Guinness record: The world's thinnest sheet of glass, so impossibly thin that its individual silicon and oxygen atoms are clearly visible via electron microscopy, was identified in a Cornell research lab.
Alison Lurie will choose some of her shorter works – “things that are complete in themselves,” she said – for a reading Thursday, Sept. 19, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.
The CARE Fund (Cornellians Aiding and Responding to Employees) needs to bolster its funding through donations by Cornell community members for its annual CARE Fund Online Auction, to be held Nov. 4-8. Donations are needed by Oct. 15.
Events on campus this week include visiting artists, a field day at Dilmun Hill Farm, Constitution Day panels, and a celebration at the Johnson Museum.
Kim Beazley, the Australian ambassador to the United States, spoke on campus Sept. 10 about U.S. diplomatic efforts in Southeast Asia. He says they are succeeding.
To understand suicide bombers better – why people kill themselves and others for a cause – we need to look more closely at cultures that value group over individuals’ thought, says new Cornell social science research.
The student-run Diversity Hosting Month is part of an initiative helping Cornell to recruit minority prospects and exceed the university's strategic goal for diversity in enrollment.
New research suggests that today’s young adults are fond of and have an emotional connection to the music that was popular when their parents were their age in the 1980s.
Ethics & Epistemology in the History of Philosophy, a conference Sept. 20-21 at Cornell Plantations’ Brian C. Nevin Center, will honor distinguished faculty members Gail Fine and Terence Irwin.
For Chinese high school students interested in attending college in the United States, the China Cornell College Preparatory Program offers a preview of higher education at a cutting-edge Ivy League university.
