You can lead students to a list of alumni contacts, but getting them to take the scary step of calling a complete stranger for advice is tough. Unless it counts on their grade.
Harold D. Craft Jr., vice president for facilities and campus services at Cornell, today (April 19) issued the following statement concerning several events involving a CU Transit bus on April 15: "The safety of the entire community is a primary objective of the CU Transit system.
If hydrogen molecules could be pressured into transforming themselves into a metallic phase, would that material be a useful high-temperature superconductor? A Cornell University theoretical physicist posed just such a scenario in 1968. Now, almost 30 years after surmising it, he may be proved right.
Researchers found that even a small increase in the number of women who have passed through that door to a managerial position dramatically increases other women's chances of being hired or promoted into that position. The result: a Catch-22 situation with important implications for the movement of women into management, as well as for the national affirmative action debate.
Historians from around the nation will visit Cornell in March for Women's History Month to speak on subjects ranging from single motherhood to women in American theater.
It doesn't have a brain or a heart, and its walk is a little like the scarecrow's, but a little headless, armless, trunkless two-legged robot, developed at Cornell University, can walk, wobble, hobble, limp, stride and stagger. But it can't stand still in any position without falling over. (April 7, 1998)
On Saturday, March 3, there will be a Venezuelan Cultural Night benefit concert in Barnes Hall. And a seminar, 'What Happened in Venezuela?' at a time and date to be announced, will provide more information on the disaster.
The history of the Andes mountain range is an epic and mysterious tale that a team of geologists at Cornell has been tracing for two decades. Now the team's work is about to get a major boost from space-borne technology.