Events on campus this week include original comedy and dance performances, documentaries on musician Kathleen Hanna and British coal miners, and gypsy repertoire by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
Gregory Poe, professor of applied economics and management, died unexpectedly March 11 at his home in Ithaca. His work focused on applied welfare economics, nonmarket valuation, experimental economics and water pollution policy.
NEW YORK – Scientists at Cornell University’s College of Veterinary Medicine recently developed new genetic tests that can detect the trace amounts of environmental DNA (eDNA) to help spot invasive species in vital waterways…
Cornell will host the Conference in Laboratory Phonology, an international meeting for researchers taking experimental approaches to the study of human speech sounds, July 13-17. It will addresses sounds in human language as part of a linguistic, cognitive and communicative system.
Gabrielle Giffords, M.R.P. ’96, and her husband, Mark Kelly, will be the speakers for Cornell’s Convocation May 23. As a member of Congress Giffords survived an assassination attempt in 2011.
Learn about planets beyond our solar system, far-flung missions and possible life in the cosmos at “(un)Discovered Worlds,” a one-day Cornell University space sciences conference May 9 to inaugurate the new Institute for Pale Blue Dots.
Events on campus include a reception for the Johnson Museum's renovated galleries, the Cornell Concerto Competition, career explorations and a free screening of "It's a Wonderful Life."
After examining hidden density waves from Saturn’s B-ring, astronomers confirm that this circular object is as lightweight as it is opaque, as published in Icarus.
A conference and concert festival celebrating the new baroque organ highlighted music of early 1700s Berlin, scientific research, organ design, and the musical passions of a Prussian princess. (March 16, 2011)