Six members of the Cornell University faculty have been named fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They are among 291 researchers chosen to receive the prestigious award this year.
The Cornell University Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca March 8 and 9. The board will meet from 9 to 11:45 a.m. and again from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Friday, March 9, in the Trustee Meeting Room of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on the Cornell campus. The morning session will be open to the public from 9 to approximately 10 a.m. Topics will include a report from President Hunter Rawlings; a report on the Student Assembly, by assembly president Uzo Asonye, a junior; a report on the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, by assembly president Patrick Carr; and an update on the state budget, including proposed statutory college tuition.
A remarkable collection of scientifically accurate glass sea life sculptures by famous glass artists goes on display June 11 in Mann Library with a lecture by Cornell expert Drew Harvell.
The amount of dust in the Earth's atmosphere has doubled over the last century, according to a new study; and the dramatic increase is influencing climate and ecology around the world. (Jan. 5, 2011)
Sandip Tiwari, the Charles N. Mellowes Professor in Engineering and director of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network (NNIN), has been named the recipient of the 2007 Cledo Brunetti Award from the IEEE.
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Cornell President Hunter Rawlings will preside over the university's 129th Commencement on Sunday, May 25, at 11 a.m. on Schoellkopf Field. Rawlings will confer degrees on almost 6,000 eligible graduates, capping two days of celebratory activities that include a Senior Convocation with an address by television personality Bertice Berry on Saturday, May 24, at noon in Barton Hall.
Researchers have developed a new method of generating terahertz signals on an inexpensive silicon chip for medical imaging, security scanning and wireless data transfer.
In the past several weeks, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory finished experimentation on methods to get the rover Spirit unstuck from its location near a plateau called Home Plate. (Oct. 12, 2009)