Andrew D. White, first president of Cornell University, was a bookish man -- a scholar who knew, loved and collected books. Though the university's founder, Ezra Cornell, was not bookish, he appreciated the value and necessity of assembling a proper library for the students and faculty of the university that was to bear his name.
From disappearing frogs and Alaskan fisheries to Gypsy herbs and West African deforestation, filmmakers will talk about their artistic visions at the third annual Environmental Film Festival Oct. 22-28.
Professor Paul McEuen talks about pushing nanoscience at Cornell to the next level, the challenge of recruiting midcareer faculty who bridge disciplines and the importance of asking, “What if?”
FORCAST, the Faint Object infraRed Camera for the SOFIA Telescope, will help answer longstanding questions about star formation, galactic nuclei, properties of the interstellar medium and more.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson gave a lecture Oct. 20 to launch Cornell Library's celebration of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth and a new exhibition on Lincoln.
In his campus visit Oct. 15, Asaf Shariv, consul general of Israel in New York, said he is still optimistic about the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. (Oct. 20, 2009)
The fences are up; the orange-vested workers are gathering. Construction for the future home of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Physics, and Applied and Engineering Physics has officially begun. (Sept. 24, 2007)
Alan H. Guth, the Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be the Hans A. Bethe Lecturer at Cornell University. Guth will give a free, public lecture.
Sergio Fajardo, former mayor of Medellín, Colombia - and now a presidential hopeful in that country - told the Cornell community Feb. 19 how he transformed a violence-ridden city into a prosperous and safer one. (Feb. 23, 2009)