The legal battle that threatens to keep Steven Spielberg's slavery film, Amistad, from opening next week moves to the Internet. The Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell has devoted a world wide web site to the case.
Cornell astronomers have been awarded a $2.1 million grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to develop and build an infrared camera called FORCAST, which will be among the main instruments aboard the space agency's newest airborne observatory.
Women who gain more than the amount recommended during pregnancy are four times more likely to be obese one year after giving birth compared with mothers who gain within the recommended range, says a Cornell University nutritionist.
Joshua Goldman, a senior majoring in physics at Cornell University, is one of 40 student winners nationwide of the prestigious Marshall Scholarship for two years of study in the United Kingdom.
When a survey of female Cornell University students revealed their preferences in formal evening gowns, three Cornell textile and apparel students set out to grant their wishes.
As a follow-up to a statement on security issues at Cornell University he distributed Nov. 24, Harold D. Craft Jr., vice president for facilities and campus services, today (Nov. 30, 1998) released a statement regarding lighting and other security concerns.
In what could be the ultimate in fast-forward, Cornell University planetary scientists have used one of the world's most powerful computing clusters to simulate motions of the small moons of Jupiter over a one billion-year epoch.
James W. York, a professor of physics at Cornell University who theorizes about universal time, space and gravity, has been awarded the prestigious Dannie Heineman Prize for Mathematical Physics by the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics. The prize is regarded as one of the world's major scientific awards, and at least six Nobel prize winners are among previous recipients. York, a theorist in the rarified field of mathematical physics, shares the prize with Yvonne Choquet-Bruhat of the Faculté des Sciences de Paris, who in 1979 became the first woman elected to the 300-year-old French Academy of Sciences. The value of the prize is $7,500. (October 8, 2002)
Top executives from Pixar, the animation studio that created "Finding Nemo" and "Monsters, Inc.," and other animation experts who, collectively, have won six Oscars, will be on the Cornell University campus, April 19-22, to meet with students interested in the digital arts. They will give four free public talks, one each day, as well as take part in small-group sessions with students in Professor Donald Greenberg's classes on art, animation and technology. The visit and talks are part of Digital Arts Graphics Week at Cornell and the prestigious Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lecture Series at the College of Architecture, Art and Planning's Department of Architecture. Co-sponsors at Cornell are the Program of Computer Graphics, the Faculty of Computing and Information Science and the Department of Architecture. (April 16, 2004)