Laura Jones-Wilson, M.S. ’10, Ph.D. ’12, learned the term ‘aerospace engineer’ from watching ‘Star Trek’ episodes. With a Cornell education, she has landed her dream job at NASA.
The annual Hilltop Jamboree at Barton Hall, Sunday, March 13, from 1 to 5 p.m. is geared to the local community and families and will feature festival food, displays, games and inflatables.
Thomas Campanella, MLA ’91, associate professor of city and regional planning, takes a long and engaging look at his hometown in his new book, “Brooklyn: The Once and Future City,” released Sept. 10.
Scholars and industry leaders are expected at the Cornell Hospitality, Health and Design Symposium, Oct. 9-11, which will examine relationships among hospitality, health care, senior living, design.
A Cornell project funded by two separate three-year grants will develop worm-like, soil-swimming robots to sense and record soil properties, water, the soil microbiome and how roots grow.
In her new book, “Togo Mizrahi and the Making of Egyptian Cinema,” professor Deborah Starr reintroduces Mizrahi’s films and career, arguing that he and his work deserve a prominent place in Egyptian cinema history.
Faculty will share ideas on climate change April 21-23 at the Smithsonian's Earth Optimism Summit, while students ascend Capitol Hill on April 21, and then walk in the national Science March on April 22.
Events on campus include the sixth annual town-gown awards, the Cornell Concerto Competition, classical and jazz performances, and "Casablanca" in Willard Straight Hall.
The search for answers to some difficult questions planted the seeds for developmental psychologist Anthony Ong’s latest course, the three-credit “Positive Psychology: Inside Prison (and Out).”
Events this week include a concert by the Cornell Orchestras, a film screening and lecture with theoretical physicist David Kaplan, a fall harvest dinner on campus and a Science Cabaret on cider.