The secret is out on Malcolm Bilson's surprise 70th birthday party, with friends, colleagues, students past and present, and lovers of early music joining him in celebration on Oct. 24.
It's possible that one day all the cooling power of a noisy, bulky household refrigerator will be available on a small device that is lightweight and has no moving parts. And the same device, when given a heat source like a car's exhaust pipe, could be used to generate electricity.
Most startup companies begin with one big idea and, as a result, struggle to stay afloat, observed Helen Johnson-Leipold '78, head of Johnson Outdoors, a $400 million outdoor-products business under the S.C. Johnson umbrella. …
Cornell study finds healthy adults who were close to the World Trade Center during the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, have less gray matter in key emotion centers of their brains. (May 27, 2008)
Dozens of faculty and administrators gathered to honor Nobel physicist and national science policy leader Robert Richardson on the patio outside Duffield Hall, Sept. 24. (Sept. 26, 2007)
Alumni, students, faculty and staff will mingle with national entrepreneurial leaders on the Cornell University campus, March 30-31, for the first annual Entrepreneurship@Cornell Celebration to highlight the growing role that…
A group of Cornell students are working day and night to get their full-size, fuel-efficient, plug-in hybrid vehicle ready for on-road testing Sept. 1 in preparation for the Automotive X Prize Competition. (July 29, 2009)
Authorities in Puerto Rico are continuing their investigation into what happened during a June 21 hike near the Arecibo Observatory that led to the deaths of two students -- one from a college in Florida and the second, whose body was found in the Tanama River June 24, from a college in Minnesota. Both are believed to have drowned. At Cornell University, where the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center (NAIC) operates the Arecibo Observatory's radio telescope on behalf of the National Science Foundation, President Hunter Rawlings expressed sympathy and concern for families of the students. (June 26, 2003)
Someday, so the dream goes, all the knowledge in the world will be on the Internet. In the spirit of "think globally, act locally," a great deal of knowledge about Cornell University is accumulating in an online repository called…