Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times science writer Natalie Angier spoke about her latest book, 'The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science,' Sept. 11 on campus. (Sept. 12, 2007)
The Cornell Cooperative Extension Marcellus Shale Team will receive the 2011 community and economic vitality award from Cornell's Community and Rural Development Institute Oct. 18. (Oct. 12, 2011)
Cornell University is offering the first and only Ph.D. program in apparel design in the United States. The program is intended to address the needs of academia, industry and research.
Suzanne Loker, the J. Thomas Clark…
Events on campus for International Education Week, Nov. 12-16, will share culture, current events and history and promote international exchange. (Nov. 7, 2007)
The project will consolidate data from 10 natural history bee collections across the United States - including Cornell's estimated 250,000 specimen collection.
Events this week include a winter party at Cornell Cinema, salsa dances for Haiti, a literary lunch, a poetry reading, Darwin Days at PRI, a Johnson Museum reception, and a conference on poverty and jobs. (Feb. 4, 2010)
Patricia Nelson Limerick, a professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder and one of the pioneers of the trend known as "New Western History," will deliver three Carl Becker Lectures at Cornell March 31 through April 2. She will deliver the lectures, which are free and open to the public.
Cornell Hillel students traveled to Ukraine June 15 for a nine-day service trip to serve elderly and disabled Jews, many of whom live in poverty. (July 24, 2008)
Cornell Theory Center (CTC) has announced an agreement with Dell, Intel and Microsoft that secures $60 million worth of resources to provide a suite of Windows-based, high-performance computing solutions and services to business, government and academic clients. CTC operates the world's largest Windows/Intel/Dell computing complex. CTC is a pioneer in the use of "clusters" of computers operating in parallel to achieve supercomputer speeds. The latest clusters at Cornell consist of Dell PowerEdge 7150 and 2650 servers with Intel Xeon processors and running the Microsoft Windows operating system. The grant will greatly expand CTC's outreach efforts to help the private sector apply this technology to integrate intensive computer simulation and analysis tools into the workplace. (August 5, 2002)