Garbage-truck traffic through Ithaca -- instead of on the surrounding interstates -- does not save truckers time or much money, and is causing safety issues for the community, a Cornell study shows. (June 9, 2008)
Two members of the Cornell faculty have been selected to receive Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships, the Sloan Foundation has announced. They are Yuri Berest, assistant professor of mathematics, and Christiane Linster, assistant professor of neurobiology and behavior.
Cornell researchers have developed a new and much quicker method for rendering hair in computer graphics that promises to make blond (and other light-colored) hair more realistic.
Wick Haxton, director of the National Institute for Nuclear Theory in Seattle, will discuss neutrinos -- nature's mysterious particles -- and the ultimate fate of the universe when he delivers three Hans A. Bethe lectures in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall at Cornell.
David Skorton's first five days as Cornell's 12th president were a carefully choreographed whirlwind of meetings, tours, introductions, media interviews and photo ops. But choreography aside, Skorton quickly found his own groove.
Ron LaFrance, the former director of the American Indian Program, died suddenly of a heart attack July 29 at his home on the Akwesasne Reservation, near Hogansburg, N.Y. He was 51.
In its newly published strategic plan, Cornell University is positioning itself as 'the exemplary, comprehensive research university' of the 21st century. (May 15, 2008)
The real causes of the Hurricane Katrina flooding in New Orleans are historical and political, according to Cornell expert Thomas O'Rourke, who calls for better disaster planning everywhere. (Feb. 19, 2007)