Trac Minh Vu has created an experimental video, Nha Ba Nguoi (The House of Three), which contains footage from a trip he made to Vietnam with his mother during winter break. The 18-day journey marked the first time he had been in the country since emigrating to America as an infant with his parents in 1975.
President Hunter Rawlings announced two key administrative appointments at the Cornell Board of Trustees' final meeting May 23. Rawlings announced the appointment of two new vice provosts.
The computer-modeling accomplishment - which is expected to aid the future design of tiny insect-like flying machines and should dispel the longstanding myth that "bumblebees cannot fly.
Carl L. Becker House, the second of five 'living and learning' houses in Cornell's West Campus Residential Initiative, is opening a year ahead of schedule, Aug. 19.
Researchers in Civil and Environmental Engineering and other disciplines are helping New York state address a broad range of transportation problems. The three-year contract has an anticipated budget of $1 million per year.
A noted astrophysicist and observatory administrator, widely experienced in international collaboration, has been chosen to direct the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center. He is Robert L. Brown.
Congress should be wary about adopting the recent flat-tax proposals being pursued on the Hill, says Cornell economist Robert Frank key lawmakers last month in Washington, D.C.
It would be easy to sum up Harold D. "Hal" Craft's career at Cornell as a series of building and facilities projects. During his 34 years here, he has led close to $1 billion in campus construction, from the Sage Hall renovation to Lake Source Cooling. But as Craft enters retirement and looks back at his three decades at Cornell, he doesn't talk about buildings or projects, business matters or finance. He talks about people.
Two Cornell interior design classes didn't just build scale models, but the real thing - indoor play zones for child-care centers. The undergraduates planned, designed and built four child-care learning and play activity centers, or mini-playgrounds.
People across the continent can help make bird-watching history on February 20, 21, and 22 by participating in the first-ever BirdSource Great '98 Backyard Bird Count, cosponsored by the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society.