It is hoped the new magazine, Ezra, will become a vital news source for alumni, faculty, staff and students, as well as the Cornell community around the world. (Sept. 29, 2008)
More than 650 scientists, physicians and other health care practitioners gathered in Doha for the XVII International DALM Symposium on Diabetes, Obesity and the Metabolic Syndrome, March 14-16. (March 16, 2011)
Ristorante Banfi at Cornell's Statler Hotel has received its first Award of Excellence from Wine Spectator magazine. The award will be listed in the Aug. 31 issue of the magazine.
With so few available academic jobs, Cornell will start a NIH-funded pilot program to help train life sciences graduate students and postdocs for nonacademic positions. A kickoff event is March 18.
An asteroid's external features, when analyzed carefully, can say a lot about its interior. So it was while he was mapping the surface of the asteroid 433 Eros that Peter Thomas, a senior research associate in astronomy at Cornell, found a simple solution to an earlier puzzle about the asteroid's composition.
The Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory at Cornell is hosting an open house, Saturday, June 11, from 1 to 4 p.m. to celebrate the 2005 World Year of Physics. Featured will be entertaining and educational activities for visitors of all ages, and everyone is welcome. The open house is one of a series of events marking the World Year of Physics, which celebrates the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's revolutionary scientific breakthroughs in the year 1905.
In a whirlwind of seminars, plenary sessions and corridor conversations, 17 Cornell students and six faculty attended COP24 in Katowice, Poland in December.
Cornell's Board of Trustees and the Cornell University Council will hold their annual meeting at Cornell, Oct. 28-30; President David Skorton will deliver the State of the University Address Oct. 29.
Kathy Savitt ’85, chief marketing officer at Yahoo!, will be the keynote speaker at the Cornell Entrepreneurship Summit NYC Oct. 11, hosted by Entrepreneurship@Cornell.