A conference titled "Hollywood vs. Babelsberg: Nazi Entertainment Films" on Saturday, Jan. 27, at Cornell will explore the politics of film in the Third Reich within the broader context of an emerging entertainment industry.
The associate director of Cornell's Peace Studies Program was in Norway last month for the presentation of the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize, which went to London scientist Joseph Rotblat and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, the organization over which Rotblat presides.
Cornell University President Hunter Rawlings made this announcement to the campus community today, Nov. 13: The national economic downturn and the aftermath of the events of Sept. 11 have sent shock waves throughout our nation and abroad.
As electronic devices grow ever smaller, single molecules could one day become components of electronic circuits or even moving parts of tiny machines. Cornell researchers have now demonstrated one way this could be done, by isolating a single oxygen molecule and causing it to rotate on command.
Melissa Hines is a researcher in search of perfection. Her goal is a mirror surface on which not even a single atom is protruding above the surface. "There is no theoretical reason why you can't make things that are perfect," says Hines, an assistant professor of chemistry.
Coroners won't write "death by global warming," but that could be an ultimate cause as millions succumb to disease in an increasingly unhealthy environment, a Cornell ecologist warns.
Three Cornell faculty members have been awarded Sloan Research Fellowships for 1998: Dong Lai, assistant professor of astronomy; Gregory Morrisett, assistant professor of computer science, and Michael J. Spivey-Knowlton, assistant professor of psychology.
George McTurnan Kahin, a specialist on Southeast Asia and the Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor of International Studies Emeritus at Cornell, died Jan. 29, 2000. He was 82.
Have serial killers Ted Bundy and Jeffrey Dahmer replaced Clint Eastwood and John Wayne as American icons? The question may oversimplify things, but it nonetheless goes to the heart of some complex cultural issues.
How well a parent can capture and keep a 2-year-old's attention on a toy may be more important than just a pleasant way to pass the time. Such "attention directing" among low-income children may be related to why some poor children have good self-control under stress and get along well with others and why some don't, according to recent Cornell University research.