Events this week include the Hasbrouck Yard Sale, songbird celebration, mineral identification, Mayfest and Commencement concerts, sketching wildflowers, and the play 'Lulu.' (May 20, 2010)
Twelve students from Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar spent the summer in Ithaca doing research, exploring the area and building friendships with students on Cornell's main campus. (Aug. 20, 2008)
G. Nick Lundskowhilip Merrill
Cornell benefactor Philip Merrill '55, international statesman and adviser to U.S. and Cornell presidents, is missing and presumed dead after disappearing Saturday, June 10, during a solitary sail on…
Ravi Kanbur, an expert on economic issues facing developing countries, has been named the first Lee Teng-hui Professor of World Affairs at Cornell University. His appointment, effective April 1, 1998, was approved by the Cornell Board of Trustees at its March 27 meeting in Ithaca.
In the search for pulsars, a grand-scale sky survey at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico is now taking advantage of the combined processing power of personal computers around the world. (March 25, 2009)
The Energy Recovery Linac, now in planning stages at Cornell, could revolutionize fields from biophysics, chemistry and molecular biology to high pressure physics. (Aug. 7, 2008)
The Science Leadership Academy provides ideas, supplies, mentors and networking opportunities that the academy hopes the teachers will use to engage students in biology, chemistry and physics. (March 20, 2009)
From building robotic submarines to designing communication devices, engineering career possibilities were seemingly endless at a science workshop for Girl Scouts, hosted by a Cornell student group March 10. (March 13, 2007)
Lara Estroff, Daniel Cosley and Maxim Perelstein have received 2009 Early Career Development Awards from the National Science Foundation. (March 16, 2009)