Cass R. Sunstein, one of the nation’s leading constitutional scholars, will lead a discussion of the past, present and future of free expression at American universities when he delivers the Konvitz Memorial Lecture, Oct. 30 in Myron Taylor Hall.
We are living in “an enormously consequential time for our university, for all of higher education and for our country,” President Michael I. Kotlikoff said in the annual State of the University address, Oct. 24 in Call Auditorium.
Cloud cover is bad for picnics and for viewing stars through a telescope. But an exoplanet with dense or even total cloud cover could help astronomers searching for signs of life beyond our planet, Cornell researchers have found.
The Northeastern Robotics Conference (NERC), held Saturday, Oct. 11 at Cornell, featured more than 100 robots research projects from the region, including a shadowboxing droid and a backflipping robot dog.
Teams featuring at least one “stranger” – someone unknown by the team before its formation – are more than twice as likely to fail as teams of friends, family members or co-workers, a new study out of the Nolan Hotel School has revealed.
Drew Harvell, a professor emerita of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University and Steven Mana'oakamai Johnson, assistant professor of natural resources and the environment, comment on the die-off of warm-water coral reefs.
