Local children of all ages learned about nanotechnology March 30 by making slime, extracting salmon DNA and attending workshops at Cornell's NanoDay, an open house in Duffield Hall.
Ratan Tata '59, chairman of India's Tata Group, presented the new $2,500 Nano minicar and addressed 'Corporate Social Responsibility in the 21st Century' with President David Skorton June 5. (June 6, 2009)
Thanks to innovative research by Cornell's Anil Netravali, Comet Skateboards is making completely biodegradable boards. The company has since moved its manufacturing operation to Ithaca. (March 19, 2008)
In 1968, Robert Summers was asked to serve as a co-consultant in the founding of the Council of Legal Education Opportunity. Since then more than 8,000 students have participated in the program. (Feb. 29, 2008)
The Clinical and Translational Science Center at Weill Cornell Medical College harnesses resources of many institutions in New York to promote research from lab bench to bedside and to the community.
Events this week include brass quintet from Austria, biking challenge, original student films, Mother's Day breakdance, ICO office discussion, university-industry partners and two bookstore events.
In her first visit to Cornell as New York's junior U.S. senator, Kirsten Gillibrand pledged to advocate for the university's agriculture and veterinary programs as a way of revitalizing New York state's economy. (April 8, 2009)
Millions of times each day, New Yorkers turn on the faucet, relying on water supplied from about 125 miles away in the Catskill Mountains. Cornell expertise helps to keep the award-winning water pristine.
Cornell just opened its new $6 million Biofuels Research Laboratory, where Cornell scientists and students from across the university are examining sustainable and economical biofuel production. (April 1, 2009)
Interim Provost David Harris, a scholar on race, ethnicity and public policy, is one of four Cornell social scientists leading a series of interactive seminars on inequality and socio-economic mobility. (Aug. 29, 2008)