In a close race with substantially lower voter turnout than five years ago, J. Robert Cooke, Cornell professor of agricultural and biological engineering, was elected dean of the Cornell faculty. Cooke, elected to a three-year term, takes office July 1.
The clash of two armies at a place that one side called Bull Run and the other Manassas was supposed to end a war before it began. But when the battle was over, 900 soldiers lay dead on the fields of Virginia, and a man on a mission of mercy from Ithaca, who four years later would found a great university, was running for his life.
The Cornell Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca on March 26 and 27. The board will meet from 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., and again from 2 to 4 p.m. on March 27, in the Trustee Meeting Room of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.
Melissa Hines is a researcher in search of perfection. Her goal is a mirror surface on which not even a single atom is protruding above the surface. "There is no theoretical reason why you can't make things that are perfect," says Hines, an assistant professor of chemistry.
A unique collection of correspondence between Indonesian adolescents and the psychology professor who has become Southeast Asia's own "Dr. Ruth" is now available at the Cornell University Library.
A new agreement extends some protection to astronomers who use the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico and have been concerned about potential interference from the commercial satellite system IRIDIUM.
If you shuffled off to Buffalo, N.Y., in February, you need not have shoveled much snow. Not since 1890 has Buffalo survived winter so easily, with only 1.8 inches of snow during the month, breaking the 108-year-old record by 0.4 of an inch.
Members of the President's Council of Cornell Women (PCCW) will focus on "Cornell Today: Issues and Actions" at the alumnae group's annual spring meeting on the Cornell campus March 27 to 29.
Andrew S. Schultz, Jr., who was Cornell's fifth dean of the College of Engineering between 1963 and 1972, died March 13 at his home in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
It makes wine smell like a barn, wet leather, horse sweat, or burned beans. It is called "brett," and it produces an often-pungent aroma in wine. Scientists are starting to unravel the chemical mysteries that produce the curious aroma found in fermented beverages like wine and beer