A Cornell graduate student has created a free, open-source rendering program that is in use by computer graphics researchers around the world, using an algorithm that had stymied most programmers. (Oct. 8, 2012)
Author and conservationist Peter Matthiessen, a two-time National Book Award winner, delivered the 2012 Iscol Environmental Lecture before a packed Statler Auditorium April 23.
An e-mail survey of some 25,000 college students - mostly in swing states - shows that half are very interested in the election and the majority are pro-Obama. Students are often underrepresented in polls. (Oct. 28, 2008)
Cornell is now offering a doctorate degree that combines ergonomics, environmental psychology, facility planning and design in the College of Human Ecology. (Oct. 28, 2008)
Duffield Hall, Cornell's landmark nanotechnology center and its first new research facility of the 21st century, will be dedicated on Oct. 6 in a ceremony in the building's atrium.
Edna O'Brien, one of Ireland's foremost literary figures, will visit Cornell to give a lecture on James Joyce on Thursday, Oct. 27, and participate in a colloquium on writing on Oct. 28.
Cornell Information Technologies' Academic Technologies Services and User Support workers have installed new videoconferencing technology on campus. (Oct. 23, 2008)
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New research by Max Zhang, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, targets diesel-fueled large trucks as the biggest culprits for polluting the air in and around Beijing. (Sept. 28, 2010)
Cornell computer scientists have proposed an innovative wireless design that could greatly reduce the cost and power consumption of massive cloud computing data centers, while improving performance. (Sept. 26, 2012)