Provost Kent Fuchs and deans Lance Collins and Daniel Huttenlocher answer questions about why Cornell is the right choice for developing a New York City technology campus.
About 225 people attended a public discussion Nov. 24 on strategic planning for Cornell University Libraries. Many faculty who attended called for more say in library-related decisions.
The Hermanos of La Unidad Latina/Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity Inc. of Cornell and the Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County are hosting the Fourth Annual Latino Street Festival.
In a Cornell Perspectives piece, Professor Molly Hite writes about why Shakespeare classes are flourishing at Cornell and at peer institutions. (Oct. 11, 2007)
More than 90 percent of all businesses in this country are family businesses, which makes them an integral part of the American economy. Strengthening these family firms will be the focus of a upcoming conference.
Astronomer Joe Veverka, chair of Cornell's Department of Astronomy, will celebrate his 60th birthday with a unique gift from his colleagues: a symposium, "Exploration of the Universe," to be held Oct. 4-6 on campus.
Nobel laureate Charles Townes, inventor of the laser and in recent years an astronomical explorer using an array of moveable infrared telescopes, will present the Thomas Gold lectures in Schwartz Auditorium in Rockefeller Hall at Cornell University next week. Townes, who is University Professor of Physics emeritus at the University of California-Berkeley, will present his first lecture, "Characteristics of old stars measured by infrared interferometry" -- aimed at a specialized audience -- on Monday, March 29. His second lecture, "Logic and uncertainties in science and religion" -- for a more general audience -- is on Wednesday, March 31. Both lectures start at 4:30 p.m. and are free and open to the public. (March 24, 2004)
Electronic music synthesizer inventor and Cornell Ph.D. Robert Moog will be honored at a special exhibit and concert titled 'The Keyboard Meets Modern Technology' at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, D.C.
An agreement by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund a Cornell University-based consortium of institutions will help to establish the new Nanobiotechnology Center (NBTC) here. NSF funding over a five-year period could reach $19 million.
Theodore J. Lowi, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at Cornell, has been elected president of the International Political Science Association. Lowi, who has taught at Cornell since 1972, was elected to a three-year term as president at the triennial meeting in Seoul, Korea, Aug. 22.