"Fishy Business," "Itty Bitty Pictures" and "Plants Can Breathe" have one thing in common: they were a few of the many hands-on workshops at Expanding Your Horizons, an annual conference at Cornell that encourages girls in grades 7 to 9 to explore careers in science and technology.
Molecular Bioengineering Lab/Cornell UniversityDNA chains that attach to one another along part of their length can self-assemble into branching structures including crosses, T's and Y's. In the presence of enzymes that connect…
Polley Ann McClure, Cornell vice president for information technologies, has been named this year's recipient of the EDUCAUSE Award for Excellence in Leadership.
Eamon McEneaney, who was an All-American lacrosse player at Cornell in the 1970s and considered one of the best ever to play the game, is among the victims of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center.
Kip Thorne, the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology, will give the first Lyman Parratt Lecture in Physics at Cornell on Feb. 16.
A symposium Sept. 14 and 15 on campus will honor John W. Reps, Cornell professor emeritus in the Department of City and Regional Planning, as he approaches his 80th birthday.
James Garbarino, professor of human development and co-director of the Family Life Development Center at Cornell, offers advice to parents on how they can help their children cope with the news of terrorist attacks.
Beebe Lake will be a lake largely without water this month when Cornell Grounds Department, at the request of Cornell Plantations, undertakes a partial dredging of the lake to remove sediment from the east end.
A scholarly reflection on the legacy of the late French philosopher Jacques Derrida titled "Literature and Democracy" will be held April 15 to 16 on the Cornell University campus. It is free and open to the public. Hosted by the Cornell Program in French Studies, the symposium brings together nine outstanding scholars in the fields of literature and literary theory -- Derrida's happy hunting grounds. (April 12, 2005)
After nine years away, David Koehler will return to Cornell as director of business information systems for Cornell Information Technologies Oct. 1. He will lead Cornell's multimillion-dollar project to modernize its administrative systems over the next five years.