Eric Nathan, DMA '12, has been selected to receive a 2012 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award.
Suppose the computer from the starship Enterprise or the HAL 9000 from "2001, A Space Odyssey" had been scanning intelligence data four years ago. Perhaps it would have made the connection humans missed between terrorists and flight schools.
Cornell's Vice President for University Communications Tommy Bruce issued a statement May 2, announcing that Michael Abbott stepped down from his position as Cornell's chief investment officer May 1. (May 4, 2011)
In the lobby of Cornell University's Thurston Hall, floor-to-ceiling windows provide a sweeping view of the four-story crane bay of the George Winter Laboratory with its mysterious monolithic constructs of concrete and steel. This massive lab, one-third the size of a football field, has become the home for a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded $2.1 million project to establish the nation's premier center for large-scale earthquake simulation experiments. The completed lab will have its public debut on Nov. 15 with an NSF-sponsored live webcast of an experiment designed to study the deformation and rupturing of underground pipelines -- carrying, for example, water, natural gas, liquid fuel or telecommunications -- during an earthquake. The experiment will be described by the earthquake facility's director Harry Stewart, an associate professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). His co-investigator is Thomas O'Rourke, a CEE professor who first became interested in earthquake-pipeline research about 25 years ago while working as a research engineer digging the Metro tunnels in Washington, D.C. (November 15, 2004)
Cornell placed second in AARP's 2011 list of top places to work for people over 50, having placed first on the list twice before and holding a spot on the list since 2005. (Sept. 7, 2011)
Professor of English and comparative literature Jonathan Culler will join 31 other scholars as a fellow at the National Humanities Center for the 2011-12 academic year. (May 3, 2011)
Cornell has added a new emergency contact database to its 'Who I Am' electronic directory, and all students are urged to sign up. Faculty and staff will be able to fill out emergency information later this fall. (Aug. 23, 2007)
New York Times reporter Eric Lichtblau '87 has won a 2006 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting for his coverage of domestic spying.
Lichtblau and fellow Times journalist James Risen shared the $10,000 prize, announced April 17…
A pre-seed workshop at the newly opened Cornell Agriculture and Food Technology Park in Geneva, N.Y., gave entrepreneur wanabees some tools to bridge the gap between lab research and a start-up company. (November 23, 2005)