Ernest Sternglass ’44, M.S. ’51, Ph.D. ’53, whose correspondence with Albert Einstein led to an electron amplification discovery that allowed millions to watch Apollo 11 astronauts walking on the moon, died Feb. 12 in Ithaca.
As a nation we simply don't care enough about science education, said Harold Varmus, president and CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute in New York City, speaking on campus April 30. (May 1, 2007)
NEW YORK -- The man who founded the popular travel Web site Priceline.com, Jay S. Walker, ILR '77, told a standing-room-only New York City audience on April 27 that the "age of the muscle is ending" and is "being replaced by the age of the mind." Walker was addressing more than 225 Cornell alumni and guests at Cornell Theory Center's (CTC) Manhattan offices.
Imagine a version of Google Street View where you could hit the rewind button and see any point in time over the last five years. Cornell researchers are building something like that, at least for a few much-photographed places, such as 5Pointz in Queens, left.
NEW YORK -- An 18-month-old girl was the first in the New York City area to receive a titanium rib prosthesis to correct a severe form of congenital curvature -- or scoliosis -- of her spine that constricts the lung cavity.
A team led by Tanzeem Choudhury, assistant professor of computing and information science, has won the $100,000 first prize in the Heritage Open mHealth Challenge with a mobile app designed to assist patients with bipolar disorder.
NEW YORK -- During February, Cornellians in New York City participated in the Westminster Kennel Club (WKC) Dog Show, celebrated the Lunar Year of the Dog and learned about the incomes of the super rich.
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Three Cornell researchers will receive Hartwell awards for their cutting-edge research to benefit children: Charles Glatt and Anjali Rajadhyaksha of Weill Cornell Medical College and John March in Ithaca. (April 3, 2008)
Cornell has signed an agreement with the government of Paraguay to further international outreach, fieldwork and exchange of information and resources.