A panel of three Cornell academics discussed the controversy in India about the film, Peepli Live, and the representations of an epidemic of farmer suicides there, Oct. 26. (Oct. 29, 2010)
Bruce Ganem, the Franz and Elisabeth Roessler Professor of Chemistry and chair of the Chemistry Department at Cornell, has received the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society. The award, which includes a $25,000 unrestricted research grant, recognizes and encourages excellence in organic chemistry.
Glenn Murcutt, an architect from Down Under who has a one-person practice, is billed as an "ecological functionalist" and doesn't use a computer, took the architectural community by surprise last spring when he was named the winner of the Pritzker Prize, a lifetime achievement award that is architecture's equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Now Murcutt has another surprise: The designer of houses on Australia's rugged promontories and bluffs, who runs his Sydney practice alone and works mainly on private commissions, is coming to Ithaca to deliver a public lecture at the State Theater Thursday, Oct. 24, at 6:30 p.m. The event, which is free and open to all, is part of the Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lecture series sponsored by Cornell University's Department of Architecture in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. (October 18, 2002)
Continuing a tradition established in 1965, Cornell's Program for Andrew D. White Professors-at-Large will bring four distinguished scholars to campus this semester for formal and informal exchanges with faculty and students. Raphael D. Levine, the Max Born Professor of Natural Philosophy and chairman of the Fritz Haber Research Center for Molecular Dynamics at The Hebrew University.
A solar cooker that help fry tortillas and a pink purse that lets potential thieves know it carries no cash are two ideas vying in 'The Big Idea' competition; the finals will be voted in April 16. (April 6, 2010)
Cornell's comprehensive mental health framework includes promoting ways to help students make social connections, which can help offset academic stress. (April 21, 2011)
The Johnson School's inaugural Israel Trek, March 20-29, included 30 Johnson School students. They experienced the energy of Israel's startup culture, met the president and more. (April 19, 2011)
"My children have very little idea of what is behind these and other marvelous inventions, which they see as so commonplace. This book is to help them appreciate and wonder at the material nature of our world.
Author and alumnus Barry Eisler made a case for curiosity, persistence, fear of failure, and the notion that a law degree can lead to careers far beyond the scope of the traditional practicing attorney. (Aug. 31, 2009)
Cornell's emphasis on outreach to a wide range of farmers is now bringing science-based expertise to one of New York's most traditional farm communities: Amish families in Cattaraugus and Chautauqua counties. (Oct. 13, 2006)