The final reports from the Cornell faculty task forces identify the next steps in nearly a decade of collaborative work aimed at making Cornell a leader in such areas as genomics and computing and information sciences.
In 1996,…
Slope Day 2006, the annual last-day-of-classes celebration for Cornell students, came and went without serious incident on May 5, but with an increase over previous years in the number of arrests and cases of alcohol poisoning.
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What is it that connects students with the library? For some it is a great place for research, reflection or even a good cup of coffee. For about 500 students, it's a place of employment, and for many of these students, it's a…
Library-sponsored student awards range from fun contests to formal recognition of accomplishments.
T-shirt contest
The top contender for "fun" awards is the Fine Arts Library's (FAL) T-shirt Contest. The goal of the competition…
When humans taste or smell, receptors unique to each nerve cell detect the chemical and send signals to the brain, where many cells process the message to understand what we are smelling or tasting. But a bacterium is just a…
When the Cornell Program of Computer Graphics was launched in the early 1970s, it was considered a major achievement to start with drawings of a building and create a computer-generated image of, say, Rhodes Hall. Today, computer…
Cornell Law School and Peking University ("Beida") are co-sponsoring a major international conference in Beijing.
Designed to stimulate thinking about future relations between the United States and China in the context of the…
Cornell University will celebrate its 138th Commencement Weekend Saturday, May 27, and Sunday, May 28. On Saturday at noon, Martin Luther King III will give the Senior Convocation Address, and on Sunday, beginning at 11 a.m.,…
Read all about it. The best articles from Cornell's Administrative Science Quarterly (ASQ) -- considered the premier scholarly journal in organizational studies -- have been published for the first time in Chinese. The publisher…
The Cornell Council for the Arts has awarded 11 students 2006-07 Individual Artist grants for artistic merit, creativity, community outreach potential and innovation.
Scientists from around the world will gather at Cornell June 2 and 3 for the Bethe Centennial Symposium on Astrophysics, a celebration of the life and contributions of Hans Bethe (1906-2005) and an opportunity to discuss the…
The future of particle physics in the United States has never been as imperiled as it is now, says economist Harold Shapiro, president emeritus of Princeton University. Failure to act, he says, could mean missing out on…
