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.
Effective senior management teams play a greater role in company success than charismatic CEOs, according to a new study by Randall S. Peterson of the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell.
Male college athletes consume about 50 percent more alcohol than their counterparts who don't participate in intercollegiate sports, a record beaten only by college fraternity members, as shown in a study.
More than 90 percent of all businesses in this country are family businesses, which makes them an integral part of the American economy. Strengthening these family firms will be the focus of a upcoming conference.
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.
The game "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon," in which actors can be connected to one another through their appearances in films with actor Kevin Bacon, works because Hollywood movies are a "small world," in mathematical terms.
Lynn W. Jelinski, the director of the Center for Advanced Technology in Biotechnology and director of the university's Office of Economic Development, will leave Cornell Aug. 1 to become vice chancellor for research and graduate studies at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.
