Karl Berkelman, the Goldwin Smith Professor Emeritus of Physics and a leader in experimental particle physics at Cornell, died Feb. 26 in Sayre, Pa. (March 18, 2009)
A July 23 ceremony honored Davy Hoy, of 'Give My Regards to Davy' fame, when his grandson donated a historical baseball, missing from campus since 1922, to Cornell Library. (July 25, 2008)
Frank Schroeder and colleagues have uncovered a class of molecules in worms that attract mates and arrest development for months in larvae. The results of the study were published in Nature.
Three Cornell students enrolled in foreign study programs are writing online about what they see and hear in their studies, home life and travels in their host countries. (Nov. 15, 2007)
The Facility Planning and Management Program at Cornell, the first undergraduate program of its kind, is now the first such program in the world to be officially recognized by the International Facilities Management Association.
"Time and a Chair," an exhibit of historic photographs depicting ordinary Americans posing in chairs in remote parts of the country from 1840 to 1940, is on display until Aug. 29.
Regulations on law and government policies regarding the Internet will be examined by law professors, attorneys, a representative of America Online and the president of Morality in Media at a symposium on April 12.
Even the low-level but chronic noise of everyday local traffic can cause stress in children and raise blood pressure, heart rates and levels of stress hormones, reports a new study by a Cornell environmental psychologist and his European co-authors.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- James R. Houck, Cornell University professor of astronomy, has been named the Kenneth A. Wallace Professor in Astronomy. Houck, who has been on the Cornell faculty since 1969, earned his Ph.D. here in 1967. He is an expert in developing optical and infrared instrumentation and techniques for observing astronomical sources.