Events on campus this week include student documentary film screenings, a concert premiere by graduate composer Taylan Cihan, and a talk on hydrofracking by energy policymaker John Deutch. (May 3, 2012)
Twenty million additional books will be accessible to Cornell students and faculty through the Cornell University Library's Borrow Direct book request and delivery system. (Jan. 31, 2011)
On May 15 Cornell's Joe Veverka led a team of astronomers and engineers in a final pitch for the mission that would use the still-healthy Stardust spacecraft to visit the comet Tempel 1 two years after Deep Impact. (May 23, 2007)
Jessica Rutkoski was one of five women presented with the Women in Triticum award at the the May 30-31 Borlaug Global Rust Initiative meeting in St. Petersburg, Russia. (June 2, 2010)
Cornell officially debuted three new wine grapes today (July 10), Noiret, Corot noir and Valvin Muscat, which are broadly adapted to the wine-growing regions in the East and produce high-quality varietal wines that are superior to those currently available to eastern growers.
An unprecedented partnership between the ILR School's Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution and the American Arbitration Association begins this year with a series of seminars. (April 14, 2009)
People lie on surveys to boast about themselves or to avoid embarrassment, among other reasons, but there was no evidence of the so-called 'Bradley effect' in the November presidential election. (Jan. 27, 2009)
Sixty years after joining Cornell’s faculty, Anil Nerode, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences, is believed to be the longest-serving professor in Cornell history.