Two Cornell physicists, Robert C. Richardson and David M. Lee, won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics for their 1971 discovery of the superfluid helium-3, a breakthrough in low-temperature physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today. (Oct. 9, 1996).
Glenn Altschuler, Theodore Lowi and Edward McLaughlin have been chosen as the 2006 Weiss Presidential Fellows for their effective, inspiring and distinguished teaching of undergraduate students.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings announced Wednesday that the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of Inge T. Reichenbach as vice president for alumni affairs and development, effective immediately.
The Lab of Ornithology's Citizen Science Program at Cornell University is the largest program of its kind in the world. It puts 35,000 volunteers from around the world to work collecting data on the behavior and characteristics of birds.
The Cornell Biodiversity Laboratory, an education/research field station at Punta Cana on the eastern coast of the Dominican Republic, has been expanded and renamed the Punta Cana Association on Sustainability and Biodiversity. The newly formed consortium of academic and nonprofit organizations will accommodate the growing number of such organizations interested in using the field laboratory and the expanding environmental resources and facilities at Punta Cana. (February 25, 2003)
The Department of Textiles and Apparel at Cornell has joined the prestigious National Textile Center Consortium, a group of universities focused on research to sharpen the global competitiveness of the domestic textile and apparel industry.
Getting at the truth about the language of lies and how and under what circumstances we weave our tangled webs is much of the stuff of Jeff Hancock's research.
After two decades, a fine gold specimen has come home. But instead of forming a Tiffany necklace, it will rest permanently in a special display case in the mineralogical museum in Cornell's Snee Hall.
A large collection of yellowing newsprint documenting Vietnam's war era is being archived for posterity, thanks to cooperative microfilming projects undertaken by Cornell University's Kroch Library and other institutions. (June 20, 2005)
'Garden of Lights,' a design by Cornell undergraduate Sean Corriel and two others, was chosen as one of eight finalists in a competition for a memorial at the site of the former World Trade Center.