Looking energetic and vigorous at 73, Peter Eisenman '54, B.Arch. '55, addressed why 'Architecture Matters' to a full house in Kennedy Hall's Call auditorium.
This profile of Cornell physicist David Mermin looks at his teaching and writing about science for nonscientists, playing the piano and his introduction of Lewis Caroll's nonsense word 'boojum' into the technical vocabulary of superfluids.
Incoming students are typically advised to make the most of their time at Cornell. Fifth-year student David Evan Todd has taken that dictum further than most.
What was thought of as the solar system's largest asteroid, 1 Ceres, has been upgraded unofficially to a miniplanet, says Cornell's Peter Thomas in the Sept. 9 issue of the journal Nature.
Professor John Guckenheimer has been appointed associate dean of the Faculty of Computing and Information Science, and Professor Tony Ingraffea has been appointed acting director of Cornell Theory Center.