This profile of Cornell physicist David Mermin looks at his teaching and writing about science for nonscientists, playing the piano and his introduction of Lewis Caroll's nonsense word 'boojum' into the technical vocabulary of superfluids.
Incoming students are typically advised to make the most of their time at Cornell. Fifth-year student David Evan Todd has taken that dictum further than most.
What was thought of as the solar system's largest asteroid, 1 Ceres, has been upgraded unofficially to a miniplanet, says Cornell's Peter Thomas in the Sept. 9 issue of the journal Nature.
Professor John Guckenheimer has been appointed associate dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science, and Professor Tony Ingraffea has been appointed acting director of Cornell Theory Center.
The world will remember Hans Bethe for centuries - for his unparalleled contributions to physics, his advocacy for peace and his generosity of spirit. On Sept. 18.
Digging out the foundation for the new $140 million Life Sciences Technology Building is no simple feat. A crew with 15 dump trucks began hauling dirt mid-August.
Harvey Klein, the William S. Paley Professor of Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College and physician to recent Cornell presidents, offered a prescription to the Cornell Presidential Search Subcommittee on Sept. 7.
CANCELED Sept. 20 Best-selling author Stephanie Coontz will give a public lecture, 'Courting Disaster? The Worldwide Revolution in Marriage,' Sept. 21.
