ILR freshman Alyssa O'Connor has a ticket for the presidential inauguration and for a ball as a student in a five-day program sponsored by the University Presidential Inaugural Conference. (Jan. 13, 2009)
Before Uyen Nguyen ever got to Cornell last fall, an upperclassman wrote to welcome her to campus and say he'd be her mentor during her first year here. "It's easy to feel lost here because Cornell is such a big university, but having a mentor made me feel like I belonged, that people actually cared about me," said Nguyen.
Dr. Michael Latham, professor emeritus of nutritional sciences at Cornell who directed the Cornell Program in International Nutrition for 25 years, died April 1 of pneumonia at age 82. (April 13, 2011)
The Light in Winter Festival of Science and the Arts is Jan. 23-25 on campus and other venues in Ithaca. The festival showcases cutting-edge ideas through theater, lectures, music and multimedia events.
The International Linear Collider is garnering key design insights from Cornell scientists, who are reconfiguring Cornell's electron storage ring into a major ILC component called a damping ring. (Aug. 25, 2009)
Rebel Þghters blow up a Death Star in Return of the Jedi. Jack's beanstalk grows taller and taller, allowing him to climb to the giant's kingdom in the clouds. But what is the likelihood that an exploding star would result in the bright ßash and loud roar of destruction that George Lucas' audience sees and hears on the screen? How high can a beanstalk really grow and still support its own weight? Science fantasy? Not to three Cornell University academics -- Alan Giambattista, Betty Richardson and her husband, Robert. They pose the questions in their recently published textbook, College Physics (McGraw Hill, 2004). Their intent is to draw readers into the text and to help explain difficult physics concepts for pre-med students and others not planning to further their education in the subject. (April 18, 2003)
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Cornell University $88,183,000 for the operation of the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) accelerator over the next 54 months.
Law School graduate Juscelino F. Colares '03 will be the first American to hold a prestigious clerkship with the Conseil constitutionnel in Paris, where he will research American constitutional law for French justices. (May 7, 2008)