Clifton R. Wharton Jr., a former deputy secretary of state, chancellor of the State University of New York system and chairman of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and the College Retirement Equities Fund, will give the Messenger Lecture at Cornell.
Cornell will hold a public auction to sell off its Solar Decathlon House, second-place winner in the U.S. Department of Energy's 2005 international competition.
Events on campus as Cornell heads into summer include Olin Library's 50th birthday, an exhibition honoring the career of Zevi Blum, a lecture on fly fishing, and several free lectures and concerts. (June 2, 2011)
James Burlitch, who retired as professor of chemistry and chemical biology in 2004, is an expert in inorganic materials. But the materials that have stolen his heart recently are fine art photographs that he shoots around the…
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Food product development starts with an idea, then moves into the food lab and ends up as a consumer good for use in a kitchen. For the Cornell University Product Development Team, what started as a good idea quickly moved into three kitchens. Armed with borrowed chef equipment, pastry bags and a plastic ruler, the team prepared prototype biscuits in graduate student Sarah Douglas' kitchen. Their ultimate goal: to make "Stir-Ins," a cookie- and chocolate-based flavorant to make freshly brewed coffee more ambient and aromatic. Coffee lovers should perk up to note: With this product, the team is one of six finalists in the prestigious Institute of Food Technologists' (IFT) Student Association 1996 Product Development Competition, held in New Orleans in June. Team members are from both Cornell's Ithaca, N.Y., campus and Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y.
Coupling the organic and inorganic, biological engineers at Cornell have demonstrated the feasibility of extremely small, self-propelled bionic machines that do their builders' bidding in plant and animal cells, including those in humans.
A "Chordash-built home" is synonymous to many Ithacans as a home of quality. Chordash Builders, which constructed and remodeled numerous homes in Ithaca from the 1950s to the early 1970s, was owned by Michael A. Chordash and his wife.
Attorneys Richard Burr and Mandy Welch, who six months ago pleaded for Timothy McVeigh's life in the death penalty phase of the Oklahoma City bombing trial, will speak at the Cornell University Law School Nov. 14. Their presentation, "Defending McVeigh's Life: A Conversation with Timothy McVeigh's Lawyers," will begin at 3 p.m. in the MacDonald Moot Courtroom of Myron Taylor Hall.