With the design for the proposed Energy Recovery Linac (ERL) well under way and a prototype already under construction, scientists at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS) have invited researchers from around the…
The 2005-06 search for the ivory-billed woodpecker in Arkansas' 550,000-acre Big Woods has officially ended without any conclusive new evidence of the elusive bird's existence. But search crews remain optimistic about next season…
Every spring since 1989 the Cornell Tradition, an alumni-endowed student recognition program at Cornell University, has honored its own graduating seniors with recognition awards. The nine Tradition fellows who have been honored…
Filip Radlinski, a Fulbright scholar from Australia, has won a two-year Microsoft Research Fellowship, awarded to outstanding Ph.D. students in computer science, electrical engineering or math. He will use the fellowship to…
President Hunter R. Rawlings, delivering the farewell Commencement address of his yearlong interim presidency, spoke at length about how gifted faculty members can make education "a life-changing experience." He invoked many of…
As students walked from the Arts Quad toward Schoellkopf Stadium for Cornell's 138th Commencement May 28, many in the academic procession wore unsuppressed smiles. The mood was festive and celebratory to match the perfect sunlit…
John Cleese is back by popular demand -- again. Cornell President Hunter Rawlings broke the good news during his Commencement address today.
"We have been fortunate to have John Cleese as an A.D. White Professor for eight years -…
Cleaving the gloom of low, sodden skies that threatened to envelop seniors and their families gathered in the Schoellkopf Crescent, Martin Luther King III implored Cornell University's Class of 2006 to "rise up" and lead the…
Saturday's (May 27) Commencement highlights included Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine's Hooding Ceremony, ROTC commissioning and the Cornell President and Trustees Parent Reception.
The Veterinary College's…
"On the admissions front, it's been an extremely busy season, the busiest in Cornell's history," reported President Hunter Rawlings to the Cornell Board of Trustees May 26. Not only have applications jumped 35 percent in the past…
"Before this course I didn't know a thing about welding. Now I've learned two different types of welding," said exuberant architecture student Rebecca Southworth as she sawed, sparks flying, at a steel angle iron in the Sculpture…
