An engineer and a chemist, working together on a corporately funded research project at Cornell, are reporting a fundamentally new way to fabricate nanoscale structures on silicon that promises the development of devices ranging from biological sensors to light-emitting silicon displays.
Anti-poverty law specialist Lucie E. White, the Louis A. Horvitz Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, will deliver Cornell Law School's Robert S. Stevens Lecture, April 11.
"The Domestication of Computers" will be the topic for Joel S. Birnbaum, senior technical adviser at Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP), in the Henri Sack Memorial Lecture Wednesday, April 11, at 4 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall at Cornell.
Itamar Rabinovich, the president of Tel Aviv University and former Israeli ambassador to the United States, will give two public lectures during his April visit as a Cornell Andrew Dixon White Professor-at-Large.
Krishanu "Kris" Saha, a senior majoring in chemical engineering at Cornell, has been named a Churchill Scholar by the Winston Churchill Foundation. The Churchill scholarship provides for a year of graduate study in engineering, mathematics or science at Churchill College of the University of Cambridge.
An entirely new class of rubbery plastics has been produced in the laboratory by a Cornell researcher and two co-workers. Because the material uses two common and inexpensive petroleum products, ethylene and polyethylene, for its feedstock, the research has the promise of greatly reduced production costs.
The transition to retirement is particularly stressful, especially when one spouse retires before the other, says a new study by researchers at Cornell. During this time, couples fight much more and are significantly less satisfied with their marriages.
Daniel A. Carp, chairman, president and CEO of Eastman Kodak Co., will be the Johnson Graduate School of Management's Park speaker on Monday, April 9, at 4:30 p.m. in B09 Sage Hall. The title of Carp's talk is "Crossing the Digital Divide." The event is free and open to the public.
Teatrotaller, Cornell's Spanish and Latino theatre troupe, will celebrate its 20th performance since 1993 with a production of "Johnny Tenorio," a Chicano play in Spanish by distinguished playwright Carlos Morton.
The Native American Students at Cornell organization will host its Third Annual Pow Wow and Smoke Dance Competition Sunday, April 7, in Barton Hall on the Cornell campus.
Juan Flores, professor of Black & Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York, is guest speaker for the Latino Studies Program's spring colloquium at Cornell University on Friday, April 6, at 4:30 p.m. in 142 Goldwin Smith Hall.
Normal-weight women who gain more than the 24 to 35 pounds during pregnancy recommended by the Institute of Medicine are 74 percent more likely to be unsuccessful at breast-feeding than mothers who observe these guidelines, according to a new study conducted by Cornell University/Bassett Hospital researchers.
