Rosemary Stasek '85, founder of a nonprofit that helps Afghan women, focused on activism as the keynote speaker March 8 at a campus celebration for International Women's Day. (March 10, 2009)
Two professors in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Philip Liu and Thomas O'Rourke, have been named to the team that will develop a new organization to manage the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) during the decade 2004-2014.
An agreement by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund a Cornell University-based consortium of institutions will help to establish the new Nanobiotechnology Center (NBTC) here. NSF funding over a five-year period could reach $19 million.
Whenever Cornell junior Kate Allen studies seagulls at Shoals Marine Laboratory, she wears a construction hat with three dowels projecting from the top like a tall wooden mohawk. The reason: herring gulls and great black-backed…
Single-strand DNA sequencing method used for analyzing ancient remains applied by Cornell researchers to sequencing of cell-free DNA taken from plasma of transplant patients, resulting in greater yield of ultrashort cfDNA.
More than 100 City and Regional Planning alumni will return to campus Oct. 15-16 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of planning at Cornell, with events including alumni panels and an exhibit. (Oct. 6, 2010)
When 10,000 honeybees fly the coop to hunt for a new home, usually a tree cavity, they have a unique method of deciding which site is right: With great efficiency they narrow down the options and minimize bad decisions.
The Cornell University Department of English will host a conference "Some Futures for the Twentieth Century," Oct. 25 and 26 in Goldwin Smith Hall D. All talks, including a post-conference reception and Saturday luncheon buffet, are free and open to the public. "In the wake of the millennium, scholars of British and U.S. 20th-century literature and culture are exploring innovative ways to think about their period -- a period that now has not only a beginning but an ending," said Molly Hite, Cornell professor of English and conference coordinator. "They are basically asking: What exactly was the 20th century?" (October 23, 2002)
Although the family at home in Ithaca was suffering for a lack of funds, Ezra Cornell started to prosper these years, though not with much cash flow. (March 29, 2007)
A week of events starting Sept. 26 will mark the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Open Doors, Open Hearts and Open Minds statement on diversity, tolerance and inclusiveness at Cornell.