An exotic piece of apparatus that will be the heart of a detector to seek out the primordial secrets of the universe arrived at Cornell's Wilson Laboratory July 7.
One of the most bizarre and baffling cat behaviors, fabric-eating, is the subject of a new study at Cornell University's College of Veterinary Medicine, where nearby cats are sought for medical trials. Fabric-eating may be a form of feline obsessive-compulsive disorder, according to animal-behavior specialists who plan to treat cats with small doses of the same antidepressant drug used by some human OCD patients.
A Cornell University-led team operating the Infrared Spectrograph (IRS), the largest of the three main instruments on NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope, has discovered a mysterious population of distant and enormously powerful galaxies radiating in the infrared spectrum with many hundreds of times more power than our Milky Way galaxy. Their distance from Earth is about 11 billion light years, or 80 percent of the way back to the Big Bang.
Artists, educators and authors will gather on the Cornell next month for a public symposium to discuss the teaching of creativity and the presence and import of the arts and artistic intelligence across the disciplines of the university.
Karen Comstock, assistant dean for public service at Cornell Law School since 2004, will be honored April 5 in Myron Taylor Hall's Berger Atrium as the 2006 winner of the Law School's Anne Lukingbeal Award.
The annual award was…
Daniel Alan Booth, 53, Cornell's assistant director for television services and director of Cornell Information Technology's Educational Television Center, died unexpectedly Aug. 29 at Cayuga Medical Center. He is survived by his…
Scholars and collectors interested in African art have long focused their attention on traditional works -- particularly the wooden sculptures and ethnographic artifacts that may be seen in today's Western museums and are described in mainstream art history textbooks.
Three Cornell seniors and one alumna receive Mellon Fellowships for graduate study. The recipients of the prestigious award, which includes a $13,500 stipend plus tuition and fees.
Cornell officials will lay a cornerstone at the new home of the Johnson Graduate School of Management, a restyled Sage Hall, during a ceremony Oct. 15. The event begins at 3:30 p.m. at the west entrance of Sage Hall.
Anne Lukingbeal, associate dean and dean of students at Cornell Law School, has been a mentor to women since she first came to campus and now she is being doubly recognized for her efforts.