Physicists discussed the revolutionary news that an experiment measured particles traveling faster than the speed of light at a physics department forum in Clark Hall Nov. 17. (Nov. 22, 2011)
Showcase of student-created computer games is fun, but it also serves as a final exam. Players' reactions to the games are part of the students' final grade. (May 18, 2011)
Help inept Munchkins avoid disaster. Play cooperatively with friends, then eat their brains. Throw squirrels at annoying students on Ho Plaza. All that and more in the upcoming Game Design Showcase.
The outpouring of emotion following Princess Diana's untimely death shows, better than any other recent event, how the way we publicly mourn has changed, says Cornell faculty member Gail Holst-Warhaft.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will be the first federal organization to use VIVO, a Web application conceived and developed at Cornell, to help scientists network and find potential collaborators. (Oct. 28, 2010)
The men's basketball team's incredible run in the NCAA tournament ended March 25 with a 62-45 loss against the University of Kentucky Wildcats. Their final season record was 29-5. (March 26, 2010)
Author and associate professor of English J. Robert Lennon featured some of the local flavor in his fiction Oct. 26 at a Literary Luncheon at the home of President David Skorton and Robin Davisson. (Oct. 27, 2010)
Cornell University is to become a site in an innovative national earthquake research system linking 15 of the nation's leading engineering schools. A $2.1 million award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) is enabling Cornell to develop a state-of-the-art facility, scheduled to open in October 2004, to test the effects of earthquake-caused damage to the nation's lifelines. These are structures, from bridges to pipelines to communications conduits, that form parts of complex networks of vital resources and services. The Cornell laboratory, a collaboration with Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), will become a link in an NSF-funded chain of testing and research sites called the George E. Brown Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES). The facility is under construction in the Winter Lab in Thurston Hall at Cornell's School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. (April 30, 2003)
Entertainment lawyer Alan Schwartz '55, who has represented Tennessee Williams and Mel Brooks, shared stories from the world of entertainment and intellectual property law Oct. 22. (Oct. 25, 2010)