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)
A three-day conference at Cornell, Oct. 14-16, will highlight the complex interconnections of language and poverty for a general audience, and promote exchange at both theoretical and practical levels among linguists and scholars.
Donald M Eigler, a physicist at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose, Calif., presents the 2005 Hans Bethe lecture, 'Life Among the Atoms: A Celebration of the Small Frontier.'
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)
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.
Author Lorrie Moore, MFA '82, will give a free public reading on Monday, Nov. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall on the Cornell University campus. Moore is Cornell's 2004-05 Distinguished Alumni Artist Award recipient, an annual award established in 1997 by the Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA) and the Committee on the Arts of Cornell University Council. (November 2, 2004)
Steven Squyres, science team leader for the Mars rover mission and Cornell professor of astronomy, announced the powerful evidence found in recent days that Mars once had a watery environment.
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.
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.