Stanford E. Woosley, an international authority on the physics of giant stellar explosions, called supernovae, will be the 2001-2002 Hans A. Bethe Lecturer at Cornell University, presenting three talks in February and March. Woosley is professor of astronomy and chair of the Department of Astronomy at the University of California, Santa Cruz. (February 18, 2002)
The Mars Exploration Rover, one of the two vehicles scheduled to explore the surface of Mars in 2004, is built and seemingly ready for its trip, complete with a full payload of scientific instruments — about two years in advance. But this is not the real rover.
Science is part of our daily lives – the way we understand the natural world, the technologies we use and the decisions we make about our health and the environment.
The Mars Exploration Rover, one of the two vehicles scheduled to explore the surface of Mars in 2004, is built and seemingly ready for its trip, complete with a full payload of scientific instruments---- about two years in advance. But this is not the real rover. It is a finely detailed, full-scale model made out of wood, plastic and aluminum that will be put on display in science museums throughout central New York state. It has been built by eight university and two high school students working with Steven Squyres, Cornell University professor of astronomy, who is the principal investigator on the Athena science payload to be carried by the long-range rovers. (February 15, 2002)
The Mars Rover will be rolled out for the first time on Saturday in Ithaca. Not the real Mars Exploration Rover (MER), two of which will roam and study the surface of Mars in 2004, but a full-scale replica of a MER and its scientific instruments, made out of wood, plastic and aluminum. (February 8, 2002)
The wide expertise of Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is now available to home gardeners through a very user-friendly home-gardening web site.
The Mars Exploration Rover, one of the two vehicles scheduled to explore the surface of Mars in 2004, is built and seemingly ready for its trip, complete with a full payload of scientific instruments— about two years in advance. But this is not the real rover.
Carol Bellamy, executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), will be the 2002 Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellow at Cornell University, March 4 and 5. Bellamy, who most recently has been working on behalf of UNICEF with the children of war-torn Afghanistan, will present the Bartels Fellowship Lecture Monday, March 4, at 8 p.m. in the Alice Statler Auditorium of Statler Hall on campus. A reception immediately following the lecture will be held in the Statler foyer. (February 14, 2002)
Leon Anziano, former president and chief executive of Arch Chemicals Inc., will give the eighth Raymond G. Thorpe Lecture in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University, Feb. 21. His talk, "Transforming a Business with Innovation and Empowerment," will be in 155 Olin Hall at 4:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public. Anziano, a 1965 alumnus of Cornell, became a visiting professor in the School of Business at the University of New Haven in 2000 following his retirement as president and chief operating officer of Arch Chemicals. The specialty chemicals concern, with interests in microelectronic chemicals, water chemicals and performance chemicals, was spun off from Olin Corp. in 1999. (February 14, 2002)
Khotso Mokhele, president of the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa, will give a lecture, "Science, Democracy and Development," at Cornell University on Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 4:30 p.m. in 122 Rockefeller Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public. It is presented as the 2001-02 Nordlander Lecture in Science and Public Policy, sponsored by Cornell's Department of Science and Technology Studies and the vice provost for research. (February 14, 2002)
