Susan Murphy, vice president for student and academic services, issued a statement to the Cornell community on the death of graduate student Turi Alcoser, 23.
Artist Laurie Anderson discusses her upcoming "Dirt Day!" performance Sept. 21 at the State Theatre; she also joins Roald Hoffman on an art and science panel Sept. 22 at the Museum of the Earth.
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.
A new hydrogen filling station – nestled in Ithaca – could help to activate a new, national energy economy, since automakers plan to begin selling fuel-cell cars by 2016.
After eight years of planning, submitting, winning, building and waiting, Cornell University’s CUSat – a nanosatellite designed by engineering students to help calibrate GPS systems with pinpoint accuracy – will be launched from California.
Cut-out, smackdown, payback, tune-in and turn-off: It’s time for “Think Big, Live Green,” a major energy conservation and sustainability campaign being launched Sept. 4 by Cornell’s College of Engineering.
