Mason Peck, former NASA Chief Technologist and Cornell University aerospace engineering professor, comments on the legacy of NASA's Opportunity rover — now facing a massive wind storm on Mars.
More than 1,000 faculty, staff and community members circulated among almost 100 on- and off-campus vendor representatives who displayed their wares and promoted their services at the Suppliers Showcase, June 1 in Barton Hall.
Dressed in '60's garb, Dean Ritter declared herself the "peace, love and harmony dean,” at the annual Arts and Sciences picnic May 31, speaking to about 400.
A free summertime college fair for area high school students, their families, teachers and guidance counselors will be held July 23, 4-6 p.m. in the Statler Ballroom, Statler Hotel.
Tapan Parikh, associate professor in information science at Cornell Tech, has been named faculty director for the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity.
Humanity may forfeit the chance to save North Atlantic right whales from extinction if conservation policies are not drawn up and implemented fast, says a new Cornell study in Oceanography.
Don Banfield, a senior research associate specializing in planetary sciences at Cornell University, comments on Martian dust storms like the one threatening NASA's Opportunity rover. He says it's important to consider the risks associated with dust storms, like the one that has silenced the Opportunity rover, when designing future missions to Mars.
