The Cornell Department of Astronomy will present a public lecture next week by Columbia University astrophysicist Malvin A. Ruderman, this year's Thomas Gold Lecturer.
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)
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.
Despite great obstacles, Ken Kunken '72, who was paralyzed from the shoulders down after severing his spinal cord in a sprint football accident, has created a life of meaning and purpose. (Oct. 9, 2009)
ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University has been awarded a three-year $195,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will enhance the museum's educational mission and further strengthen collaborative efforts between the museum and Cornell's academic departments, as well as support student internships.
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.
Craig Fennie, assistant professor of applied and engineering physics, and Sheila Nirenberg, associate professor of physiology and biophysics at Weill Cornell Medical College, have been named 2013 MacArthur Fellows.
Cornell English professor Ellis Hanson delved into the satire and double entendres found in Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest' at the 92nd Street Y in New York City June 29. (July 6, 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.
The IEEE …