Robert G. Bland takes eight cards from a deck, ace through 8, and makes a perfect shuffle -- taking the bottom four cards and interweaving them with the other four. By doing so three times, he returns the cards to their original order. "Students are always surprised at this. It provides a good example to introduce the notion of a 'directed graph,' something of considerable interest in many of the mathematical sciences.
In deep space, there are very few second chances. But one year later and one year wiser, a team of Cornell University astronomers and researchers is preparing for the first spacecraft to orbit an asteroid, named 433 Eros, on Valentine's Day.
Concerned that changes in climate and landscape are affecting birds in North America, scientists at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society are asking volunteers across the continent to log on Feb. 18-21.
Women have made "substantial progress" in gender equality over the past 25 years, increasing their presence in the labor market and narrowing the wage gap with men.
Cornell is moving to the next phase of an innovative plan to cool campus equipment and buildings using cold water from Cayuga Lake as a natural refrigerant, now that studies have shown the concept is environmentally and economically feasible. The plan, called lake source cooling, would use cold water from the bottom of Cayuga Lake to chill water from the campus, which then would be used for air conditioning and equipment cooling in Cornell buildings.
Cornell University's Presidential Search Committee, charged with conducting a search for the university's next president, will hold four open meetings over the next few weeks to receive input from the campus community. Edwin H. Morgens, vice chair of the Cornell Board of Trustees, chairs the search committee. He released a report today (April 24, 2002) describing the search procedure. (April 25, 2002)
We all know it's a small world: Any one of us is only about six acquaintances away from anyone else. Even in the vast confusion of the World Wide Web, on the average, one page is only about 16 to 20 clicks away from any other. But how, without being able to see the whole map, can we get a message to a person who is only "six degrees of separation" away?
A few bad actors among the more than 30,000 non-indigenous species in the United States cost $123 billion a year in economic losses, Cornell University ecologists estimate. "It doesn't take many trouble-makers to cause tremendous damage," Cornell ecologist David Pimentel.
Doggie coats and booties are more than fashion accessories and a couple of extra pounds of fat is healthy when it comes to "winterizing" dogs for outdoor activities, according to trainers of some canine athletes that make human Olympians look like couch potatoes -- the sled dog racing team at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine.
Three Cornell students, in different fields of study, are among a select few American recipients of the prestigious Rhodes and Marshall scholarships announced today.