Events on campus in July include aboriginal art at the Johnson Museum, Karl Pillemer relating lessons on love from elders, Plantations botanical garden tours and School of Criticism and Theory public lectures.
The Cornell Institute for Food Systems Industry Partnership Program offers a new public-private partnership that brings together Cornell’s food science faculty and staff with industry scientists, engineers and leaders.
The professor of mathematics was named a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics during an Aug. 1 induction ceremony at the Joint Statistical Meetings/IMS Annual Meeting in Miami. (Aug. 16, 2011)
Mason Peck, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, who served as NASA’s chief technologist from January 2012 to December 2013, has received the agency’s Distinguished Public Service Medal.
A working group has formed to reduce some of the administrative burdens felt by faculty and academic staff, beginning with developing metrics to calculate the hidden costs associated with implementing new policies and procedures.
To sort out the biological intricacies of Earth-like planets, Cornell astronomers have developed computer models that examine how ultraviolet radiation from their own nearby suns affects these worlds.
A group of Cornell physicists led by Michael Niemack has joined a group that will use two new telescopes to measure the Cosmic Microwave Background, the universe's earliest measurable light.
Cornell scientists have created a new computational method that can identify positions in the human genome that play a role in the proper functioning of cells. The research was published in the Jan.19 edition of the journal Nature Genetics.