Twinkle, twinkle little pulsar is much more than a nursery rhyme to radio astronomers. They have found a way to use the twinkling to measure the velocity and distance of these speeding neutron stars that are up above the world so high that they have escaped from the galaxy.
Cornell hockey star and Canadian politician Ken Dryden '69 joined former athlete, U.S. Sen. Bill Bradley, Sept. 10 to discuss sports, service and leadership with ESPN host Jeremy Schaap '91. (Sept. 14, 2009)
President Jakaya Kikwete of Tanzania laid out his vision for meaningful progress in health care in Tanzania in a Global Health Grand Rounds lecture at Weill Cornell Medical College April 16. (April 20, 2010)
Fifty seniors, funded by the Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Research Scholars program, discussed their undergraduate research projects at the annual Senior Expo April 14. (April 19, 2010)
Considering the radiance of the day, that so many would sit inside a public library for bit of "Bosh and Flapdoodle" only proved that the work -- as well as the memory -- of the late A.R. Ammons is very much alive.
Speaking Jan. 19 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Celebration in Ithaca, professor Locksley Edmondson said that Barack Obama's election does not indicate that America has become a 'post-racial society.' (Jan. 20, 2009)
Cornell study has verified a theory that variations in the distance between atoms in cuprate superconductors account for differences in the temperature at which the material begins to superconduct. (May 6, 2008)
Susan Piliero, associate professor in the Department of Education, is the new director of the Center for Learning and Teaching (CLT) at Cornell. She was appointed in July.
For the third year, students studying philanthropy in Cornell's College of Human Ecology allocated $10,000 from Doris Buffett's Sunshine Foundation to local nonprofit organizations. (May 5, 2008)