A long-sought goal of scientists has been to shrink the transistor, the basic building block of electronic circuits, to smaller and smaller size scales. Scientists at Cornell University have now reached the smallest possible limit: a transistor in which electrons flow through a single atom.
A visual art project that brought Jews and Muslims together on Cornell's campus is the winner of the 2003 James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony.
A low-tech idea for a healthy and delicious fast-food snack took first place, and an award of $10,000, in a Cornell University contest for the best business idea. The winning concept is Johnny Applestix -- sliced-to-order sticks of fresh apples lightly fried in canola oil, tossed in a secret blend seasoned with cinnamon and sugar, then served with the customer's choice of a vanilla or a caramel dipping sauce. It was developed by Mark Kuperman and Anthony Dellamano, both second-year students in the master's of management in hospitality program at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration. They hope eventually to market their product in malls, ballparks, airports and other high-traffic areas across the United States. (April 4, 2003)
The Kingsbury commission, appointed by Cornell University Provost Don M. Randel, announced today (April 2) the results of the necropsy of the unidentified object removed from Cornell's McGraw tower on March 13. In a four-word executive summary, the commission found: "It is a pumpkin!"
Amos Webber (1826-1904) perhaps never intended there would be a biography written of him. After all, his life as a black man born free in the North, as a Civil War soldier, as a servant and janitor was the not an experience that captured headlines. His was a life that could be overlooked easily by historians and others who document America's past.
About 55 miles north of I-95's northern-most point, along U.S. Route 1, is Caribou, Maine, where the school system teaches 1,700 students, the public library holds 50,000 volumes, winter sports enthusiasts ride outhouses and canoes downhill at their annual Winter Carnival or buzz across 1,300 miles of groomed snowmobile and cross-country ski trails.
To celebrate their 45th alumni reunion, June 8--10, Jon A. and Virginia M. Lindseth, both members of the class of 1956 have bestowed a major collection of material documenting the American women's suffrage movement to Cornell University Library.
Jan Willis '69, M.A. '71, the daughter of a Baptist deacon from Alabama and former campus activist, now is a chaired professor of social sciences at Wesleyan University and a prominent scholar-practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism.
Culminating a six-year development and building process led by Cornell University's Steven Squyres, the second of two Mars-bound clusters of scientific instruments, called the Athena payload, arrived March 11 at the Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Fla. The instruments will ride aboard NASA's twin Mars Exploration Rovers, scheduled for separate launches beginning May 30 and June 25. (March 12, 2003)