Helen Schember has been named executive director of the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future, joining Frank DiSalvo, CCSF director since the center's September 2007 inception. (Jan. 11, 2008)
A new imaging technique and strategy allows researchers to study how dopant atoms affect electronic disorder in superconductors. The work, led by Cornell's J.C. Séamus Davis, is published in the Aug. 12 issue of Science.
Almost gracing the century mark, Cornell alumnus and entomologist William Arthur Rawlins died Dec. 31, 2007, in Black Mountain, N.C., at the age of 99. (Jan. 9, 2008)
American adolescents are not the only ones who have a tough time making the tumultuous transition from childhood to adulthood. Nearly all societies describe this period as filled with challenges, crucial decisions and important experiences.
Edna O'Brien, one of Ireland's foremost literary figures, will visit Cornell to give a lecture on James Joyce on Thursday, Oct. 27, and participate in a colloquium on writing on Oct. 28.
Mycologist Paul Stamets, founder and leader of Fungi Perfecti of Olympia, Wash., will give a lecture, 'Mushrooms as Ecological Medicines for People and Planet.'
Donald A. Rakow has been named the Elizabeth Newman Wilds Director of Cornell Plantations, which administers the arboretum, botanical garden and other natural areas of Cornell's campus.
Neuroscience for high schoolers? Why not, says Cornell University neurobiologist Ron Hoy. To prove his point that the subject can be exciting for young people to study, Hoy and a Cornell development team of colleagues and undergraduates have developed a suite of novel, interdisciplinary multimedia teaching tools.
Legendary insurance mogul Maurice R. Greenberg and his wife, Corinne, were honored at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine April 11 at the dedication of the magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) suite bearing their name. Funded by…