Cornell researchers have demonstrated a technique for writing, erasing and rewriting microscopic magnetic patterns – think the world's tiniest Etch A Sketch – that could advance research into ultrafast computer memory.
Events on campus in July include aboriginal art at the Johnson Museum, Karl Pillemer relating lessons on love from elders, Plantations botanical garden tours and School of Criticism and Theory public lectures.
Events this week include Christmas Vespers in Sage Chapel, NASA's Dava Newman on plans to explore Mars, dance at the Schwartz Center, a Student Sustainability Summit and ways to survive study break.
Nobel laureate Ada Yonath will give the 2013 Efraim Racker Lecture in Biology and Medicine on “Life Expectancy” Nov. 14 at 8 p.m. in Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall.
H. Laurance "Larry" Fuller '60 and Nancy Lawrence Fuller '62 have endowed the Fuller Professor of Ornithology for top scientists in lab research. The first to hold the position is Irby Lovette.
Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, has received the Euler Book Prize from the Mathematical Association of America.
Bounty from a student garden at Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva is being donated to a local food pantry. (Sept. 14, 2012)