This week's events include a performance by the Cornell Symphony Orchestra, music and dance at the Locally Grown Dance Festival, and dinner with Top Chef Jimmy Bradley at the Hotel School's Guest Chefs Series.
Robots that walk like human beings are common in science fiction but not so easy to make in real life. The most famous current example, the Honda Asimo, moves smoothly but on large, flat feet. And compared with a person, it consumes much more energy.
"Reinvigorating the Humanities" was the title of a national colloquium held in Philadelphia May 12, but that was something of a misnomer. As evidenced by presenters who ranged from university presidents to congressmen, the…
Several members of the Cornell community are playing key roles in the 1998 United Way of Tompkins County campaign on and off campus. Their efforts, which started last spring, are aimed at raising $1.6 million this fall.
The music of George Gershwin and the words of George Bernard Shaw are just some of the pleasures awaiting the more than 5,500 alumni and guests expected to visit Cornell on Reunion Weekend, June 5-8.
What started as a casual screening of raspberry varieties in the greenhouse grew into a graduate student class project and may soon blossom into a large-scale, full-fledged agricultural industry for New York: fresh, sweet raspberries in winter.
In a follow-up to a June 17 Cornell Chronicle story, the university answers questions about a consultants' report with recommendations on suicide prevention and bridge safety. (July 8, 2010)
Lani Guinier, Houston Baker and Stanley Fish are among more than a dozen prominent guest speakers who will present public talks as part of the 1999 summer session of the School of Criticism and Theory.
Cornell's Faculty of Computing and Information Science now offers a major in information science, which combines computer science with the social sciences to study how people and society interact with information.