Tree diseases, ecosystem disturbance, the crumbling of houses, biomass degradation, carbon cycling and bioremediation of environmental toxins have a lot more in common than first meets the eye.
Renaissance scholar, critic and author Stephen Greenblatt of Harvard University will give the 22nd annual Gottschalk Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Cornell Department of English, Wednesday, March 28, at 7 p.m. in Hollis Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall.
Andrew Clark, Steven Strogatz, Eva Tardos and William Thurston have been named Jacob Gould Schurman Professors, one of the most prestigious chairs at the university. (July 20, 2007)
Even if implemented to the maximum, renewable energy sources would replace only about half the U.S. consumption of oil, natural gas and coal, according to an analysis by ecologists at Cornell. Furthermore, the analysis states alternative energy systems -- such as hydroelectric, solar and wind power and biofuels -- if fully developed would occupy up to one-sixth of America's land area.
Dickson Guillaume and the New York State Haitian Interdenominational Mass Choir are the featured artists for this year's 23rd annual Festival of Black Gospel at Cornell University.
Editors' picks for events the week of Oct. 17 range from a Shuffle Concert to the Hans Bethe lectures to the NOW Dance Company from Seoul, South Korea. (Oct. 16, 2008)