Novelist and visiting professor Richard Price will read from a work-in-progress Monday, March 12, at 4:30 p.m. in the A.D. White House on the Cornell University campus.
Some veterinary students around the world stand out as special, possibly destined for a leadership position in the veterinary or biomedical sciences. These students are not only at the top of their class but show other exceptional qualities that set them apart.
A group of 10 alumni and 25 historic preservation and planning students went to prison in April -- for a work weekend at the Eastern State Penitentiary complex in Philadelphia. (May 30, 2007)
A team of three Cornell professors and one recent graduate student has discovered hypothetical conditions in which the elements lithium and beryllium, squeezed together under hundreds of thousands of atmospheres of pressure, bind to form stable -- and possibly superconducting -- alloys. (Jan. 23, 2008)
High school students Rachel Zax and Ryan Musa were the top winners in the inaugural North American Computational Linguistics Olympiad, March 29, which they entered at the invitation of Cornell professors. (May 29, 2007)
The composition of the Presidential Search Committee to nominate a successor to Cornell President Hunter Rawlings was announced on March 30, by Harold Tanner, chair of the Board of Trustees; Peter C. Meinig, chair-elect; and Edwin H. Morgens, vice chair.
Christopher Ober, professor of materials science and engineering at Cornell, has been awarded a $1.3 million, four-year grant by the National Science Foundation to produce and study polymer microphotonics.
"Duality and Unification" will be the topic for mathematical physicist Edward Witten of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies when he delivers a special Gemant Lecture on Monday, Sept. 1, at 3:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall'