Beth E. Clark, a research associate in Cornell's Department of Astronomy for the past three years, has been named by NASA to lead a research team for history's first asteroid sample return mission.
The patenting of genes, or other scientific discoveries, need not interfere with the free exchange of information among scientists, and it is often the best way to bring the benefits of discoveries to the public, a Cornell University patent and licensing manager will tell Congress today (Thursday, July 13). James A. Severson, president of the Cornell Research Foundation, will testify before the House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property.
Leave it to Bill Nye "the Science Guy" to turn a traditional piece of calibration equipment into a really cool, state-of-the-art scientific instrument. As he was looking over the designs for instruments to be carried aboard NASA's 2001 Mars Surveyor Lander.
PASADENA, Calif. -- The Cornell University-developed, mast-mounted panoramic camera, called the Pancam, on board the rovers Spirit and Opportunity will provide the clearest, most-detailed Martian landscapes ever seen. The image resolution -- equivalent to 20/20 vision for a person standing on the Martian surface -- will be three times higher than that recorded by the cameras on the Mars Pathfinder mission in 1997 or the Viking Landers in the mid-1970s.
If professors at the southern end of one of upstate New York's Finger Lakes furtively check their computers, then cancel class and go sailing – blame and RUSS. Remote Underwater Sampling Station is the instrument package installed June 6 in Cayuga Lake, near the Cornell campus.
Hollywood, the movie capital -- 'city of the modern gold rush' and 'a sinkhole of depraved venality' -- is a likely target for satire, especially for American playwright David Mamet.
Old friends, familiar haunts and updated memories await more than 5,500 Cornell University alumni and guests returning to campus for the university's Reunion 1999 weekend, June 10-13.
Former ambassador Paul Wolfowitz, Johns Hopkins University, will discuss "Back to the Future? Will This Century Be as Bloody as the Last?" Friday, June 9.
All Randy Worobo, associate professor of food science and technology, ever wanted to do as a college student was to go back to the farming life of his childhood. Five miles from their nearest neighbor, the Worobo family calved 800 cattle each year and grew the grain they needed to feed them on their 12,000-acre ranch in rural Alberta, Canada. "My brother and I knew, though, that we couldn't stay on the farm," says Worobo, whose high school class consisted of just six students. "Our parents insisted that we go get a degree from a university -- not a college -- in anything, even basket weaving, to see that there's more to life than farming. After that, they said we could come back." (April 14, 2005)
A unique collection of correspondence between Indonesian adolescents and the psychology professor who has become Southeast Asia's own "Dr. Ruth" is now available at the Cornell University Library.