Ornithologists have taken voyeurism a step further by installing a video camera in the home of a pair of nesting tree swallows. The seemingly oblivious birds at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology are raising a family in full view of the World Wide Web.
Benjamin Widom, who since 1983 has been the Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry in the Cornell Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been named one of the two recipients of the 1998 Boltzmann medal.
Twinkle, twinkle little pulsar is much more than a nursery rhyme to radio astronomers. They have found a way to use the twinkling to measure the velocity and distance of these speeding neutron stars that are up above the world so high that they have escaped from the galaxy.
Joan Jacobs Brumberg, a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and professor of human development and women's studies, has been elected a fellow of the Society of American Historians.
Porus Olpadwala, professor and chair of the Department of City and Regional Planning (CRP), has been named interim dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning effective July 1.
For the second year in a row, Cornell engineering students won a fiercely fought contest to design, build and race a Formula SAE racing car, overcoming competitors from 90 other top engineering schools in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Great Britain.
You can lead students to a list of alumni contacts, but getting them to take the scary step of calling a complete stranger for advice is tough. Unless it counts on their grade.
Educational communications experts, World Wide Web programmers, curriculum designers and computer and video technologists are joining forces with Cornell faculty to extend Cornell's educational programs throughout the world.
Hydrogen, as any materials scientist will tell you, is a tough nut to crack. It is the simplest of the atoms, but in its molecular, or solid state it is incredibly complex. The long-sought goal of turning the element into a metal, it has been predicted, would require pressure close to that found at the center of the Earth.
Beginning Tuesday, June 9, the Cornell campus, which has been serenaded daily by the Cornell chimes with few interruptions since the university opened, will fall silent for the better part of a year.
The Human Ecology Alumni Association of Cornell has announced that Grace Richardson of New York City is the winner of the 1998 Helen Bull Vandervort Alumni Achievement Award for outstanding professional and volunteer services.
It's a world filled with bondage, supreme sacrifice and cannibalism as a mating ritual. Given their propensity for horror-movie behavior, it's little wonder that spiders provoke an immediate reaction of fear and disgust from students.
