Francisco Valero-Cuevas, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell, has been awarded a $239,992 research grant by the Whitaker Foundation to study the human thumb.
Terry Plater is the new associate dean for academic affairs in Cornell's Graduate School. She assumed her position in January 1999, succeeding Eleanor Reynolds, who retired in the fall 1998 semester.
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.
A student team from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management was the first-place winner April 2 in the second MBA Stock Pitch Challenge. The team from Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management, which hosted the competition, came in second. The two winning teams competed for two days against teams from nine other top U.S. business schools and were judged by a blue-ribbon panel of Wall Street stock analysis experts on the buy and sell sides. The Kellogg team won a cash prize of $3,000, and the Johnson School team won $1,500. (April 9, 2004)
As little as a decade ago "computer networking" meant watching words creep slowly across your screen; today's computer networks deliver photographs, engineering drawings, CD-quality audio, full-motion video.
Do the humanities have to be useful? As you might expect, Cornell faculty members and students can concoct a wide range of creative responses to a question like that.
Eighteen essays about the humanities have been published in a…
The tests currently used to detect old DDT and other organic pollutants in the soil may overestimate the risk to living organisms, according to Cornell researchers who say the real issue for government regulators at toxic cleanup sites should be "biological availability" of aging toxins.
The Atacama region of northern Chile is one of the highest and driest places on Earth -- a contradictory landscape of parched ground, cool salt lakes, archaeological treasures and the occasional startling band of hot-pink…