The Cornell Library Collaborative Learning Computer Laboratory, also known as (CL)3, in Uris Library marked its first anniversary in August. Approximately 10,000 users have taken advantage of the lab during public hours, and seven courses use the lab for all or some of their classes.
NSF Director Neal Lane, top researchers in the field will give talks Neal Lane, director of the National Science Foundation and a physicist by training, will be among the key speakers at the 50th anniversary celebration of Cornell University’s School of Applied and Engineering Physics on Sept. 20 and 21.
Two major family-oriented events, the fifth annual Pow Wow and Smoke Dance competition and the 37th annual Veterinary Open House, will be held at Cornell University on Saturday, April 5. The Pow Wow begins at 10 a.m. in Barton Hall. This stunning variety of Native American dancing, singing, chants and drumming begins with a resplendent and picturesque Grand Entry of participants commencing at noon. The Pow Wow will continue until 8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. (April 3, 2003)
The Risley Hall print shop gives students a hands-on lesson in early American technologies related to their freshman writing seminar, "American Literature and Culture: The Power of the Page." (Oct. 1, 2008)
This summer, NASA will sponsor four young scientists who will work on analyzing data from the largest infrared telescope to be sent into space. The telescope, called SIRTF, for Space Infrared Telescope Facility, is scheduled for launch on April 15 and will circle the sun in an orbit that trails just behind the Earth's. One of the SIRTF fellows, Henrik Spoon, an astrophysicist at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, will work at Cornell University as a postdoctoral researcher with James Houck, the K.A. Wallace Professor of Astronomy. (February 26, 2003)
In 2007, Cornell's Homer C. Thompson Research Farm in Freeville donated a record 178,000 pounds – or about 82 tons – of fresh produce, more than double what the research farm gave away in 2004, to three local food banks.
Enthusiastic student-based fundraising is credited for helping boost the Cornell campus portion of the 2007 United Way of Tompkins County campaign far above goals set by university organizers. (Jan. 24, 2008)
What is believed to be the first course on vegetarianism at a mainstream university. The course, Vegetarian Nutrition (NS 300), will be taught by T. Colin Campbell, professor of nutritional biochemistry at Cornell and the director of the Cornell-China-Oxford Project on Nutrition, Health and Environment, the most comprehensive project on diet and disease ever conducted.
Cornell researchers and colleagues have created cell phones that allow deaf people to communicate in sign language, the same way hearing people use phones to talk. (Dec. 2, 2009)