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Sister Helen Prejean, the author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the U.S., will give a public lecture in Statler Auditorium on Tuesday, Oct. 24, at 8 p.m.
Author and conservationist Peter Matthiessen, a two-time National Book Award winner, delivered the 2012 Iscol Environmental Lecture before a packed Statler Auditorium April 23.
Using data from the NASA Kepler Mission, Cornell astronomers have identified three Earthlike planets orbiting their own suns, all of which could be hospitable to life. (April 25, 2012)
Brian Crane, an assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Cornell University, has been named a recipient of two major research awards: the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development Program award and a Searle Scholars Program grant.
During a meeting of the full committee in the Cornell Club in Manhattan Sept. 21, PSC members got their first look at a database of more than 150 presidential nominees whose names were submitted through both formal and informal channels.
When the National Geographic Society's hunt for living giant squid sends sperm whales with video cameras to the ocean depths this month off New Zealand's South Island, the "camerawhales" will be tracked by the Cornell Bioacoustics Research program.
Poet Joanie Mackowski described her efforts to challenge herself and write about non-humans in her poetry, speaking April 25 at this semester's final Literary Luncheon. (April 27, 2011)
Steven Stucky, the Given Foundation Professor of Music at Cornell and a pre-eminent American composer, has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Scientists hoping to produce super-tough, bio-inspired fibers are a step closer with a new model for the molecular arrangement of spider silk, proposed by Cornell researchers in the Jan. 5 issue of the journal Science. Alexandra H. Simmons, Carl A. Michal and Lynn W. Jelinski reported their findings in the article, "Molecular Orientation and Two-component Nature of the Crystalline Fraction of Spider Dragline Silk."