Veit Elser, Cornell professor of physics, has found that an algorithm developed to process X-ray diffraction data also solves Sudoku puzzles. (Feb. 26, 2006)
Mixing traditional graduation sentiments with a smattering of politics, former NATO Supreme Allied Commander Gen. Wesley Clark got Cornell's Commencement Weekend off to a rousing start with a Senior Convocation address in which he invited the graduates to assume leadership roles in the "community of American citizens" and, incidentally, to lead the country in a different direction than the one it's now pursuing.
Three Cornell faculty winners of 2002-03 Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowships -- for effective, inspiring and distinguished teaching of undergraduate students -- were announced at a special dinner on campus March 6.
Now that pianist Garrick Ohlsson has concluded his historic two-year cycle of the complete works for solo piano by Chopin, the 49-year-old musician can play what he wants.
Benjamin Widom, who since 1983 has been the Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry in the Cornell Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been named one of the two recipients of the 1998 Boltzmann medal.
Beginning Tuesday, June 9, the Cornell campus, which has been serenaded daily by the Cornell chimes with few interruptions since the university opened, will fall silent for the better part of a year.
'I'm so proud and very, very humbled to have the chance to be a part of the leadership of this great jewel of international higher education,' said David J. Skorton, Cornell's newly named 12th president.
The proposed Life Science Technology Building on the campus of Cornell University is an integral part of the university's much larger program of cross-disciplinary research in the life and related sciences.
Newly released data -- from 21 delicately timed observations at three telescopes taken over five years -- yields the strongest evidence to date that Mercury has a molten core, reports Jean-Luc Margot in Science. (May 3, 2007)
Researchers at Cornell, in collaboration with Clark Atlanta University (CAU), have received funding to support a five-year, $8 million effort to conduct research and training aimed at promoting economic growth and relieving poverty in Africa.