A woman driving a white minivan pulled up to the information booth on Hoy Road at Cornell and rolled down her window.
"I'm trying to get to Bartels Hall to register," she said, slightly breathless. Her husband in sunglasses sat…
U.S. News and World Report has placed Cornell at the top of its rankings for best undergraduate engineering science/engineering physics program for the second year in a row. In overall rankings, Cornell tied for 12th place. (Aug. 18, 2006)
Jazz musician Simon Shaheen will perform in President David Skorton's inaugural concert at 9 p.m. Sept. 7 in Cornell's newly renovated Bailey Hall. The concert is free and open to the public. Tickets are required and will be…
It was called the Jazz Age and the Roaring '20s, a time when bootleggers peddled bathtub gin, flappers danced the Charleston and there was money to burn. The 1920s was a profligate postwar time rife with wild indulgence, and it…
Scientists have a long tradition of doubling as activists and advocates for a cause. Some chose their careers with that goal in mind; many more followed research paths that led them later to think about such issues as morality…
Engineers who develop microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) like to make their tiny machines out of silicon because it is cheap, plentiful and can be worked on with the tools already developed for making microelectronic circuits…
Sunny days tend to draw people outdoors, but this summer 63 undergraduates stayed inside clean rooms to learn the intricacies of nanoscale fabrication. The students, interns in the 2006 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU…
Eight weeks ago, none of the 10 students -- eight undergraduates and two on their way to graduate school, from around the United States and the Caribbean -- quite knew what they were getting into. They came to Cornell for a taste…
Scott Jaschik '85, editor of the Web-based Inside Higher Ed, gets more than 100 pitches a day for stories from colleges and universities. Yet, very few are from community colleges. He wants to change that, but not by getting…
Whenever Cornell junior Kate Allen studies seagulls at Shoals Marine Laboratory, she wears a construction hat with three dowels projecting from the top like a tall wooden mohawk. The reason: herring gulls and great black-backed…