The Alumni Association of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell will honor six alumni at the association's annual alumni awards banquet on Friday, Sept. 20.
Juris Hartmanis, the Walter R. Read Professor of Engineering and professor of computer science at Cornell University, has been appointed assistant director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE).
Richard Meier, architect of the Getty Center heads a list of distinguished artists, educators and critics who will offer insight into America's cultural climate and artistic professions during a symposium Oct. 4 and 5 at Cornell.
The Cornell Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City on Thursday, Sept. 12. The meeting will be held in Room A/B of the Cornell Club.
Cornell chemists have created the world's smallest wires and encased them in a plastic polymer, an accomplishment that could lead to a host of new electrical or optical uses at the nanometer scale.
Fabrics have always been an integral part of flight, according to a Cornell University video. And now, this connection will be a featured part of a new Smithsonian Institution exhibit in the new gallery, How Things Fly, in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.