Maury Tigner, who two decades ago helped design and build the half-mile-circumference accelerator at Cornell, has been named the next director of the operator of the huge device, the Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, one of the world's leading centers for elementary particle research.
In the introduction to his new book, In the Past Lane, Michael Kammen, the Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture at Cornell, tells the story of a chair.
The National Emphysema Treatment Trial (NETT), in which Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is a major participant, has found that certain advanced emphysema patients benefit little from Lung Volume Reduction Surgery (LVRS) and are at unacceptable risk of death from the procedure.
Vice President Al Gore and Andrew Cuomo, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, paid a special visit to Amsterdam, N.Y., Sept. 30 to release a preliminary report on efforts to jump-start the historic barge canal region's stalled economy.
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships have been awarded to 17 students at Cornell. The fellowships, which provide students with an $18,000 annual stipend for three years.
The New York City tech campus is generating interest - and questions - from around the community. Tech campus proposal leaders will answer questions at a forum Feb. 3, and the Chronicle periodically will run an FAQ. (Jan. 26, 2012)
Andrew D. White, first president of Cornell University, was a bookish man -- a scholar who knew, loved and collected books. Though the university's founder, Ezra Cornell, was not bookish, he appreciated the value and necessity of assembling a proper library for the students and faculty of the university that was to bear his name.
Pat Podufalski, an administrative aide in the president's office at Cornell since 1977, was injured in a car accident as a young woman. Those who observe her at work for the first time marvel at how efficiently she is able to do her job despite the perceived challenges of using a wheelchair.
The seventh Cornell Council for the Arts Individual Grants exhibition opens Jan. 11 at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on the Cornell University campus. The exhibition features the work of nine artists who were awarded the grants in either 1992, 1993 or 1994.