Events this week include actress Marlee Matlin, Darwin Days, a Breaking Bread discussion of race, religion and campus climate, and Oscar-nominated shorts and films featuring cats at Cornell Cinema.
Researchers have modified nanoparticles known as 'Cornell dots' to make the world's smallest laser - so small it could be incorporated into microchips to serve as a light source for photonic circuits. (Aug. 17, 2009)
Cornell Cooperative Extension-New York City, in partnership with other New York City-area educational and waterfront organizations, is planning to create Harbor 360, a public education and visitor attraction, on Governors Island National Monument.
In March 2005, Cornell scientists confirmed the fears of many Empire State public health officials, deer farmers, hunters and other stakeholders: Chronic wasting disease (CWD), an incurable and fatal condition in deer and elk, had spread to New York. On Aug. 13 in Syracuse, N.Y., experts from around the nation will address this problem at a special seminar: "Deer and Chronic Wasting Disease in New York State: A Workshop for Sportsmen, Farmers and Outdoor Writers."
A new resource called CURxED is available statewide through Cornell Cooperative Extension to help senior citizens sift through the complexities of the federal prescription drug plan options. (Nov. 5, 2007)
W. Barlow Ware '47, the voice of Cornell varsity hockey and football from 1957 to 1986 and a longtime alumni affairs staff member, died Dec. 19 in Ithaca. He was 86. (Dec. 22, 2011)
Cornell garnered a gold medal and two bronzes in this year's CASE Circle of Excellence Awards. Photographer Jason Koski won the top prize for an individual photo. (Sept. 16, 2009)
Milstein Hall architect Rem Koolhaas showed contrasting architectural conventions and how innovations changed architecture in the early 20th century in an April 13 lecture in Kennedy Hall. (April 14, 2010)
Alice Fulton, MFA ’82, the Ann S. Bowers professor of English, read from her poetry and shared the inspirations for some of her work in Klarman Hall April 27.
Patrol officers from the Cornell University Police Department arrested Rishawn M. Vieweg, 25, suspected for an attempted robbery at knifepoint that occurred Tuesday, Nov. 19, at about 5 p.m., near the Synapsis Cafe in Weill Hall.