Graduate students in Professor Rob Bloomfield's Business and Oversight in Second Life seminar use avatars, or virtual personas, to study business and policy issues in the virtual-reality world of Second Life. (Oct. 22, 2007)
Three Cornell undergraduates have won 2014 Barry Goldwater Scholarships, which support sophomores and juniors intending to pursue careers in natural sciences, mathematics or engineering.
Stamp-size satellites, developed at Cornell, are getting a test run aboard the space shuttle Endeavour when it launches April 29. They are designed to blow in the solar wind and collect data. (April 27, 2011)
A Cornell study by psychology professor James Cutting finds that our attention span while watching films conforms to a universal constant. (March 9, 2010)
Cornell's library adds more than 125,000 books each year, plus an increasing number of digital books and an array of 'nonbooks.' Who decides what to buy? Librarians, of course. (June 9, 2007)
ProvidedTrenchmaster Vronwy Hankey and foreman Antonis Zidianakis excavate storage jars from the Minoan settlement Myrtos-Pyrgos. The jars were analyzed in the Cornell study using radiocarbon analyses.
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Mathios, who has served as interim dean since July 2007, has been appointed the Rebecca Q. and James C. Morgan Dean of the College of Human Ecology for a five-year term, beginning July 1. (June 24, 2008)
Cornell's student body have elected sophomore Asa Craig as its representative to the Cornell Board of Trustees. He will serve a two-year term beginning July 1. (April 24, 2009)
Scientists at Cornell’s College of Veterinary Medicine are partnered with the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine to advance healing techniques and technologies for animals and humans.