Events this week include "Phantom of the Opera" in Sage Chapel, Ag Day on campus, whale sounds in concert with the Cornell Chimes, a French film festival, and art talks at the Johnson Museum and the History of Art Gallery.
Mason Peck, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell University and former NASA Chief Technologist comments on the failure of a Soyuz rocket launch and emergency landing.
The university is launching two new multicollege departments – one in statistics and data science, and one in computational biology – to meet evolving research needs, encourage collaboration, and improve the quality of teaching and learning in these increasingly essential fields.
Imagine a 'Super Court' comprising all 36 Supreme Court justices from 1946 to 2016. Doctoral student Eddie Lee did just that, and found stability and consensus are constants.
In her second annual address to staff, Cornell President Martha E. Pollack reviewed the university’s priorities, highlighted initiatives relevant to staff and fielded questions Oct. 9.
Thomas O’Rourke, professor of engineering at Cornell University, comments on how utility companies and governments should handle power damage and outages after hurricanes.
Ultrasmall Cornell dots armed with antibodies are another weapon in the fight against cancer, says Uli Wiesner, professor of materials science and engineering.
