Two exhibitions are opening in the galleries of the Department of Textile and Apparel at Cornell and will be on view through Aug. 25. The exhibitions show textile treasures from around the world and the link between dress and behavior across time and between cultures.
Mario Molina, one of three atmospheric chemists to share the 1995 Nobel Prize, will deliver a Chemistry Colloquium at Cornell on April 4 at 4:40 p.m. in Room 200 Baker Lab.
Teenagers and young adults across the country and in this area are going to be surrounded with a strong safety campaign message: "Click It or Ticket; If you won't buckle up to save your life, then buckle up to save yourself a ticket," as Cornell University Police joins more than 13,000 law enforcement agencies and other campus and university law enforcement officers in a nationwide crackdown on seat belt law violators. The message to teens and young adults will be seen and heard in television and radio ads, across college campuses, over high school public address systems and through enforcement in locations where young people congregate -- such as schools and sporting events. (May 24, 2004)
In 1962, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, a pioneering exposure of the hazards of the pesticide DDT, became one of the most influential books in the history of science and helped set the stage for the environmental movement.
Cornell researchers have come up with nanoscale resonators -- tiny vibrating strings -- with the highest quality factor so far obtainable at room temperature for devices so small.
Fifty years after Watson and Crick described the structure of double helix DNA, Cornell biophysicists are discovering the roles of DNA-binding proteins in much the same way an impatient person frees a stuck zipper.
Cornell's Women's Studies Program and the Program on Gender and Global Change are sponsoring a four-day conference, "Genders and Nations: Reflections on Women in Revolution," April 2 to 5 on campus and in the community.
Levels of a pivotal signal processor in the brain are reduced significantly in people with schizophrenia, a study by scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College, The Rockefeller University, and University of California at Irvine (UCI) has found.
BALTIMORE -- Carl Sagan, the David Duncan Professor of Astronomy and Space Sciences and director of the Laboratory for Planetary Studies at Cornell University, today (Feb. 10) received the 1995 AAAS Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology.
Cornell's Albert R. Mann Library has reached a milestone in disseminating information to the developing world: It has sold its 50th 'library in a box,' a full set of scientific journals packed onto 296 CD-ROMs. Distribution began in 1999.