Neil Gershenfeld, director of the Physics and Media Group of Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab and co-director of the Things That Think research consortium, will speak on "Things That Think" at noon, Oct 20. The event is the first in a new distinguished lecturer series sponsored by the Cornell Faculty of Computing and Information.
The larvae of the viburnum leaf beetle reducing them to skeletal remains emerged during early May in western and central New York state, Cornell University entomologists say.
At a May 7 panel discussion on reducing Cornell's environmental footprint, Cornell administrators, faculty members and students agreed that energy reduction and greater efficiencies will not be enough. (May 9, 2007)
A woman driving a white minivan pulled up to the information booth on Hoy Road at Cornell and rolled down her window.
"I'm trying to get to Bartels Hall to register," she said, slightly breathless. Her husband in sunglasses sat…
Hadas Kress-Gazit, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, will speak about robotics at Charter Day: A Festival of Ideas and Imagination, April 26 in Rockefeller Hall.
Many of the personal papers and records kept by Gen. William J. "Wild Bill" Donovan during the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals are now housed in the Cornell Law Library.
Roderick K. Clayton, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor Emeritus in the Department of Plant Biology, died Oct. 23. An expert on photosynthesis, he was 89. (Nov. 15, 2011)
The fraternity donated the funds to Ithaca Public Education Initiative, a nonprofit that facilitates community connections and support for students and teachers in the Ithaca City School District.