Charles H. Bennett, a quantum computing expert and research fellow at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, N.Y., will deliver the first in a series of lectures sponsored by the Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science. The lecture, "Quantum Information Processing," will be held Thursday, April 21, at 4 p.m. in 700 Clark Hall and free and open to the public. (April 12, 2005)
Sunn 'Shelley' Wong and Stephen Morgan have been awarded Paul advising awards, and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon and John Hale have been awarded Appel fellowships for their faculty excellence. (June 13, 2011)
Juan Hinestroza has helped develop transistors using natural cotton fibers, which could lead to smarter, highly functional clothing and perhaps even cotton-based circuits and computers. (Oct. 26, 2011)
Cornell Public Affairs Society (CPAS) is leading a wide-scale computer donation campaign to benefit the people of Africa. Society members are asking the greater Ithaca community to donate fully functioning, used computers with a Pentium I -or greater processor, or its equivalent. They have set an ambitious goal of acquiring 200 units by May 31. The computers are destined for African nations, with an emphasis on institutions supporting women in schools, agricultural organizations and training centers, and health agencies. Monitors, mice and keyboards are the only peripherals that can be accepted with the computers. All donations must be in working condition; all software, including the operating system, should be removed prior to donation. (May 19, 2003)
Why have a number of research universities recently jumped on the bandwagon of building interdisciplinary institutes in the biomedical sciences? Cornell's Anthony Bretscher explains. (Dec. 11, 2008)
More than 100 students who participated in three business competitions and a demonstration embodied the spirit of entrepreneurship at the annual Celebration conference April 18-20.
Jesse Goldberg, assistant professor of neurobiology, received a four-year, $240,000 grant intended to help him investigate pressing global health problems.
The Cornell University police investigative unit was recognized with the Frank Hammer Kiwanis Officer of the Month Award June 16 for identifying and seeking out an unknown person who had left behind a despondent note Commencement Weekend.
Cornell Tech, Cornell's initiative to build a world-class technology and entrepreneurship campus on Roosevelt Island, has entered the land use review process. New images of the campus have been released. (Oct. 15, 2012)