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.
NEW YORK -- The building of a pioneering life sciences research complex situated in the desert on the border between Jordan and Israel will begin this year, the Bridging the Rift Foundation has announced. The foundation is leading an international group of scientists and educators from Jordan, Israel, Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y., and Stanford University in Stanford, Calif., in building a research and education center to gather, organize and model information about all living systems. (May 25, 2004)
Kenneth Clarke and Ross Brann led an April 18 event, “Blacks and Jews in America: A Conversation,” that considered the history of a complex relationship.
The Delta 2 launch vehicle sits on the pad, belching smoke -- then you see it as it lifts into space. Next comes an intimate view of the separation of the solid rocket motors, two minutes into flight, then the separation of the first stage followed by the second-stage ignition.
Cornell University announced today the shortlist of six renowned architectural firms for the planned CornellNYC Tech campus's core academic building on Roosevelt Island. (Feb. 27, 2012)
Research into new applications for graphene, as well as supporting women who work in the field of nanoelectronics, will result from a new National Science Foundation grant to Cornell. (Nov. 1, 2011)
As Cornell's 31st Hatfield Fellow in Economic Education, Schmidt will lecture on 'Our Connected Age.' The talk will be Sept. 20 at 5 p.m. in Statler Auditorium. The lecture is free; space is limited. (Sept. 11, 2012)