A sky survey using the Arecibo radio telescope turned up a massive, fast-spinning binary pulsar that could give researchers new insight into the fundamental properties of matter at extreme densities. (May 15, 2008)
Some are cylindrical, some look like a double sandwich and some are continuous three-dimensional cubic structures. All are generated by a class of designer macromolecules that could lead to improvements in solar-cell and fuel-cell technology, as well as advances in ultra-miniaturization of electronic devices. These synthesized molecules self-assemble themselves into structures with dimensions on the order of ten nanometers, an unusual process that mimics nature's most fundamental system of organizing living tissue. (One nanometer is about the width of three silicon atoms). (September 03, 2004)
Panelists Michael Lewis and Mary Ellen O'Connell took on the question of the legality of American drone strikes in the Lund Critical Debate Nov. 21 on campus.
Cornell Provost Biddy Martin has announced the reappointment of Susan A. Henry as the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of Agriculture and Life Sciences in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, for a five-year term.
Historian and activist Angela Davis' 2003 book 'Are Prisons Obsolete?' is the inaugural title of an annual reading project at Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center.
The seven-year-old Physics Undergraduate Teaching Assistant (UTA) program supports Cornell students considering a career in teaching high school physics. The program has grown to over 60 participants this year.
John Neuman, a Cornell University alumnus and president and chief executive officer of 1492 Consulting Group, has been named interim CEO of eCornell, the university's for-profit distance-learning subsidiary, it was announced today, Nov. 11, by the eCornell office. Neuman succeeds Francis P. Pandolfi, who joined eCornell as its first CEO in September 2000. Pandolfi resigned recently for health reasons. (November 11, 2002)
Cornell's Northeast Regional Climate Center has released the odds of a white Christmas for cities in the Northeast. Pinkham Notch, N.H., tops the list with a 95 percent chance of having snow on the ground Dec. 25. (Dec. 18, 2008)
Women entering their senior years with a healthy weight and waist size have a significantly better chance of reaching age 85 without chronic disease or mobility impairment.