An obscure paper on superconductivity was recently rediscovered by a Cornell University professor and has been posted on the Internet on Cornell's e-print service arXiv. (November 29, 2005)
In a provocative and often-humorous guest sermon, "So Far, So Good, So What?," on April 10, the Rev. Professor Peter J. Gomes discussed the past, present and future of Sage Chapel and expressed his views on the role that religion plays at modern universities.
Cornell's vice provost for life sciences and professor of plant breeding and plant biology applies plant agriculture to human well-being while also overseeing the New Life Sciences Initiative.
Ted Thoren, who led his teams baseball and football teams to more wins than any Cornell coach in a decades-long, storied career, died in Ithaca at age 89. (May 11, 2011)
Cornell has long recognized the importance of both theoretical and applied learning, but equally important is the university's ability to instill and cultivate a sense of social responsibility, Skorton said. (May 25, 2008)
A Cornell researcher crossed three varieties of yellow onion trying to find a line of higher-yielding plants, but instead came up with something unexpected. While he shed tears, they were tears of joy: The researcher, Thomas W. Walters, Ph.D., had stumbled onto a sweet, pink onion.
H. David Lambert, who has been instrumental in developing Cornell information technologies for the past nine years, will leave the university on Dec. 31. He has been vice president for information technologies since 1995, and director of network services from 1989 to 1995.