Instead of towing, which can leave a motorist stranded and can cost $100, Transportation Services will use wheel immobilizers, which are less costly to the driver, for some parking violations. (May 31, 2012)
Scientists trying to decipher the microenvironment of living biological tissues now have a way of taking high-resolution, high-speed, three-dimensional images of their inner workings. (Dec. 17, 2012)
The next great phase of research in the biological sciences is burgeoning at the crossroads where chemistry meets biology. To explore this cutting-edge interdisciplinary nexus, Cornell's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology will host a symposium.
Plans for Duffield Hall, a new research center facility aimed at keeping Cornell a leader in nanotechnology, have been submitted to the city of Ithaca, beginning the environmental and site-plan review processes.
A.R. Ammons, Cornell University's legendary bard, is celebrated in an unprecedented 480-page issue of Epoch magazine, Cornell's literary journal. The volume titled This Is Just a Place: The Life and Work of A.R. Ammons (Cornell University, $12.95) includes 30 previously unpublished poems, prose pieces from all phases of the poet's career, entries from Ammons' Navy diary, 21 remarkable paintings by the poet, plus letters, conversations and other ephemera. Ammons, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry at Cornell, died in February 2001 at age 75. During his career, he won virtually every major prize for poetry in the United States, including two National Book Awards -- one in 1973 for Collected Poems, 1951-1971 and another in 1993 for Garbage. (May 24, 2004)
Events this week include a Black History Month community discussion, 'The Phantom of the Opera' in Sage Chapel, Emancipation Proclamation exhibit tours and an artist residency with Ellen Fullman.
The Cornell Public Service Center and the United Way of Tompkins County are recruiting locally for new AmeriCorps*VISTA members to serve in the Tompkins, Tioga and Schuyler county communities. AmeriCorps is a federally funded network of national service programs that engage 50,000 Americans each year. VISTA stands for Volunteers in Service to America and is often referred to as the "domestic Peace Corps." Since the early 1960s, the VISTA program has embedded volunteers for one-year terms within low-income communities to help address critical issues related to poverty. In 1993, VISTA formally joined the AmeriCorps network, and today nearly 6,000 AmeriCorps*VISTA members serve in hundreds of nonprofit organizations and public agencies throughout the United States. (March 24, 2004)
The Cornell Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City Thursday, June 24. The meeting will be held in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St.
A $20 million gift from the estate of Cayuga County resident Ruth Price Thomas will go to the Department of Architecture in Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art and Planning, President Hunter Rawlings announced Dec. 18.