In a letter to the editor, June Gee of Cornell Law School expresses appreciation to the Chronicle for 'bringing the vast world of Cornell to our doorsteps and our computers.' (May 9, 2008)
Forest City Ratner Cos. announced Jan. 23 that Two Sigma Investments, a tech and investment firm, is the first company to be selected to locate at The Bridge at Cornell Tech.
A Cornell multidisciplinary team devised a way to get a "time-lapse" look at the early formation of mesoporous silica nanoparticles, from six-sided crystals all the way to 12-sided quasicrystals.
Top executives from Pixar, the animation studio that created "Finding Nemo" and "Monsters, Inc.," and other animation experts who, collectively, have won six Oscars, will be on the Cornell University campus, April 19-22, to meet with students interested in the digital arts. They will give four free public talks, one each day, as well as take part in small-group sessions with students in Professor Donald Greenberg's classes on art, animation and technology. The visit and talks are part of Digital Arts Graphics Week at Cornell and the prestigious Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lecture Series at the College of Architecture, Art and Planning's Department of Architecture. Co-sponsors at Cornell are the Program of Computer Graphics, the Faculty of Computing and Information Science and the Department of Architecture. (April 16, 2004)
A doctoral program in systems to be offered by Cornell University beginning in fall 2016 will prepare students to tackle some of the world's most complex logistical problems.
Some day, Assistant Professor Hod Lipson believes, every home will have a 'fabber,' a machine that replicates objects from plans supplied by a computer: Instead of buying an iPod, download the plans and the fabber will make one for you. (Feb. 26, 2007)
These clothes soon may be all the rave: Fiber science and physics students have teamed to create fashionable “smart” garments with vivid, luminescent panels that pulse to music.
A Cornell study offers further proof that the divergence of humans from chimpanzees some 4 million to 6 million years ago was profoundly influenced by mutations to DNA sequences that played a role in turning genes on and off.
Through a grant from the National Historical Publications & Records Commission, 65 railroad collections held by Cornell Library’s Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives will go online.