While examining the flight behavior of flesh flies, Cornell University entomologists have discovered that males of the species (Sarcophagidae: Neobellieria bullata) -- traveling at very high speed, soaring in sexual pursuit and swiveling their heads like gun turrets -- literally can lose sight of a target female. Yet the males compensate for the momentary loss of vision and still catch up to mate. A detailed explanation of this quirk in vision physiology and neurological processing could help military and aerospace engineers to build aircraft and artillery that have improved detection of evasive targets. (November 10, 2003)
College students from several East Coast states will visit Cornell the weekend of April 26- 28 for a conference celebrating Mexican-American art and culture.
March averaged 7 degrees colder than the same month last year, as the Northeast officially endured the 18th coldest March in 102 years of record, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
Many of the Cornell students who live off campus call Collegetown home during the academic year. But Collegetown is also home to year-round residents and families, private homes and large apartment complexes, and a bustling business district.
L. Gary Leal, professor and chair of the Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara, will deliver the 1996 Julian C. Smith Lectures in Chemical Engineering at Cornell on April 23 and 25.
ITHACA, N.Y.-- Kenneth T. Derr, chairman and chief executive officer of Chevron Corp., will deliver the 1996 Durland Lecture Wednesday, April 17, at Cornell University. Derr, a Cornell alumnus and emeritus trustee, will present "Competitive Performance: The Master Metric for an Evolving Global Economy" at 4:30 p.m. in David L. Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall. In addition to his lecture, Derr will meet with students in the Johnson Graduate School of Management and in the College of Engineering.
Popular and controversial educator Joe Clark will be the keynote speaker for the sixth annual Cornell Tradition convocation on the Cornell campus, Feb. 23.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- How much government regulation of the Internet should there be? How should the First Amendment and privacy law apply to the electronic superhighway, where everything from medical information to pornography is available at the press of a button? These issues and others will be examined by law professors, attorneys, a representative of America Online and the president of Morality in Media at a symposium on "Regulating Cyberspace: Is Censorship Sensible?" April 12 and 13 at Cornell University.
Dean Lee Taylor, a Cornell University professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and a leading researcher and educator in computer-aided design, died at home in Ithaca July 31.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In a huge river of primordial hydrogen flowing from the neighboring Magellanic Clouds into our own Milky Way galaxy, astronomers have discovered the first evidence of turbulence and concluded that the invisible, hot mass of gas surrounding our galaxy is much thicker than physicists previously thought. Galactic turbulence, an ingredient in cosmic cloud and star formation, has never before been seen in starless areas of the cosmos. "What causes turbulence in a star-free cosmic stream is unclear, but this finding could be important in understanding the cosmic-cloud and star-formation processes," says Snezana Stanimirovic, an astronomer at the National Astronomy and Ionosphere Center at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, which is operated by Cornell University in a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation. (January 7, 2002)