Juan González, street-smart scholar and columnist for the New York Daily News , will deliver the Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press lecture Tuesday, Oct. 26, at 4:30 p.m. in the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall at Cornell.
The Cornell Population Program, with a new $1.15 million grant, conducts research and trains others to use demographics to improve lives, nationally and internationally. (Feb. 2, 2009)
The Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell has issued probabilities for various cities in the Northeast having a white Christmas. The snowiest hot spot is Pinkham Notch, N.H. (Dec. 17, 2009)
Good news for the advertising industry: Television viewers surfing the Web during commercial breaks are often triggered by TV ads to visit product websites and make purchases, according to new study.
Enceladus – a large icy, oceanic moon of Saturn – may have flipped, the possible victim of an out-of-this-world wallop, according to a research group including Cornell scientists.
A Cornell researcher has created an extremely efficient transistor made from gallium nitride, which may soon replace silicon as king of semiconductors for power applications. (Dec. 8, 2009)
Events on campus this week include contra dance and salsa, a talk by Roberto Sierra, violinist Leonidas Kavakos, Soup and Hope, special museum events, lectures on computers, the Internet and privacy. (Jan. 27, 2011)
Nearly 140 retirees and family members of George Peter gathered at the Cornell Recreation Connection Park Sept. 10 to honor Peter, an active Cornell employee who died in August 2008. (Sept. 16, 2009)
A new mulitimedia tool from Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine aims to minimize avian disease outbreaks by helping veterinarians and farmers diagnose poultry diseases more quickly. (April 1, 2009)