'Glee' star Jane Lynch, M.F.A. '84, and three other Cornellians were among the winners at the 2010 Emmy Awards, held Aug. 21 and 29 in Los Angeles. (Aug. 30, 2010)
As pump prices for gasoline set record highs in the United States and crude oil becomes more expensive than it has been almost at any time since the 1991 Gulf War, Cornell University is hosting an engineering conference April 15-17 on Energy Demand and Sustainable Development. The conference will feature talks on the applications and business potential of new technologies in energy and sustainable development by Cornell alumni who are leading energy industry figures and faculty members who are leading the research at the Cornell campus. They will discuss a range of issues involved in formulating national energy policy, including the role of advanced technologies, providing low-cost electricity and the use of ethanol as a fuel. The conference also includes a research poster session by students. (April 8, 2004)
Astronomers using the world's most powerful radar system, the massive Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico, have obtained radar images of a giant, dog bone-shaped asteroid, an apparent leftover from an ancient, violent cosmic collision.
A portion of Cornell's Tower Road -- from Judd Falls Road to Campus Road in the vicinity of Boyce Thompson Institute and the College of Veterinary Medicine -- is scheduled to be rebuilt beginning the week of June 9.
Robert S. Harrison '76, a Cornell trustee, has endowed the directorship of Cornell's Institute for the Social Sciences. The position currently is held by sociology Professor David Harris, who recently was named vice provost for social sciences.
A groundbreaking ceremony May 4, to mark the beginning of Phase II of the reconstruction of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) complex, is expected to draw 150 people.
Chaos. To engineers, it has meant that their systems were at risk, and they did their best to engineer chaos out of them. “It used to be a nuisance. Engineers would avoid it at all costs,” said Steven H. Strogatz, Cornell associate professor of theoretical and applied mechanics.
Panelists at an Oct. 3 discussion titled 'DREAM Act: A Pipe Dream or Eventual Reality?' explored the passage of legislation that would provide a path to legalization for undocumented youth. (Oct. 6, 2011)
Entomologist May Berenbaum, department head at the University of Illinois, discussed the lack of women in her field April 3 as part of the two-day Frontiers Symposium of leading women life scientists.
Chemist and Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann, a self-proclaimed atheist, discussed science and God with a Christian MIT nuclear scientist March 30. Their differing worldviews had some surprising similarities. (April 3, 2012)