Four Cornell professors are among the leading researchers who were invited to contribute to the recently published new edition of the four-volume set The Handbook of Child Psychology. The massive, 4,850-page, four-volume reference set, now in its fifth edition, is a comprehensive source book, encyclopedia and research review guide on the current state of knowledge in human development and developmental psychology.
Johann Peter Krusius, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cornell University and a co-inventor of an important new flat-screen television and video technology, died of cancer on January 30, 2003, at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca. He was 58. At Cornell, where he was a former director both of the Joint Services Electronics Program and the Electronic Packaging Program, he led a research group that designed and developed techniques for joining color ßat-panel television and video screens to make large active matrix LCDs (liquid crystal displays) made up of three panels tiled together into a single, seamless piece of glass. (February 4, 2003)
A project of Cornell's Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise aims to make it easier for developing nations to manage sustainable tourism. (March 2, 2011)
Last summer, Cornell junior Sui-Ling Evelyne Kuo lived the good life on Appledore Island, the 95-acre home of Shoals Marine Laboratory in the Gulf of Maine.
Cornell University President Hunter Rawlings announced today (Oct. 25) the formation of an Academic Initiatives Fund to finance the recruiting of new faculty who will forge creative, intellectual initiatives, particularly across disciplines.
Senior Lisa Jones had an 'over-the-top' workload last week, with prelims and course assignments due Oct. 1. Even so, she added one more item to her to-do list: Start up a company over the weekend. (Oct. 2, 2012)
A five-year, $27 million upgrade to the world's most sensitive radio/radar telescope at Arecibo Observatory will be dedicated on Saturday, June 14. The telescope, the world's largest single antenna radio telescope (305 meter, or 1,000 foot) and the world's most powerful radar.
With proper management practices, farmers could grow crops while maintaining ecosystem services, said Cornell professor Alison Power during her AAAS presentation in Chicago. (Feb. 17, 2009)
Cornell Lab science editor Laura Erickson has written 'The Bird Watching Answer Book,' a 400-page, pocket-sized reference answering some 200 questions about birds. (Nov. 11, 2009)