A team of Cornell University engineers has built a self-driving vehicle to enter the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge, in which a vehicle must cross 175 miles of battlefield-like terrain entirely under computer control.
Cornell's Department of Computer Science will celebrate its 40th anniversary Oct. 1 with a symposium featuring several alumni who now hold prestigious positions in industry and academia.
'Turkey: Culture, Change and Development,' a weeklong program featuring numerous cultural events, photography exhibits, films, readings and leading-edge forums.
During a meeting of the full committee in the Cornell Club in Manhattan Sept. 21, PSC members got their first look at a database of more than 150 presidential nominees whose names were submitted through both formal and informal channels.
Cornell veterinarian Ed Dubovi isolated an equine flu virus that has for the first time jumped species to dogs, causing respiratory flu to spread among man's best friends, according to a paper published in the Sept. 26 issue of Science Express.
A new Office of Postdoctoral Studies has been established by the Graduate School and the Office of the Vice Provost for Research at Cornell, in 384 Caldwell Hall.
Thomas Eisner, a world authority on animal behavior, ecology and evolution, is the winner of Rockefeller University's 2005 Lewis Thomas Prize for Writing about Science
Cornell commemorated Constitution Day Friday, Sept. 23, with a discussion that challenged the modern interpretation of one of the living document's most fundamental tenets: the separation of church and state.
Cornell's Department of Materials Science and Engineering marked 40 years with a daylong symposium Sept. 20 titled 'Materials Science and Engineering in 2020.'