A decade ago, Cornell opened the doors of a pioneering new building, a home for innovative and collaborative life sciences research. The $162 million, 265,000-square-foot Weill Hall.
N.Y. -- Two featured events during Cornell University's 22nd Health Awareness Week, Jan. 27-31, on campus, will be public lectures by noted health professionals Dr. Henry J. Heimlich and Dr. Robert C. Hsiung. Hsiung, an associate professor of clinical psychiatry at the University of Chicago and an online health-information innovator, will give the Distinguished Health Professional Lecture Wednesday, Jan. 29, at 7:30 p.m. in Room G10 of the Biotechnology Building. (January 10, 2003)
Researchers at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and the North American Bluebird Society (NABS) are asking bird-lovers to log on to online and put their birdhouses on the map for the first-ever Great North American Bluebird Count.
Cornell students and faculty participated in a series of programs celebrating Indonesian culture from Dec. 7-12 at the New York Public Library. (Dec. 15, 2009)
Attendees at the April 1 Service Recognition Dinner celebrated 25 or more years of service to Cornell by listening to opera, watching a clogger, rocking to rock and clapping to the sounds of the past 40 years. (April 9, 2009)
Has a 1991 Supreme Court ruling led to more prejudiced verdicts in capital cases and more defendants on death row? Statements about a victim's virtues have become a common feature of capital trials in the United States since Payne vs. Tennessee, when the nation's highest court ruled that victim impact statements (VIS) in death penalty cases were admissible in court. Scholars have argued about the effects of such statements on jurors' verdicts. Now, that controversial subject will be discussed at length at a day-long symposium at Cornell University Law School March 2. Also addressed will be the supposition that executions bring relief to the families of victims. (February 27, 2002)
Joe Veverka, professor of astronomy and principal investigator for NASA's Stardust-NExT mission, said the spacecraft-comet rendezvous met each of the mission's objectives. (Feb. 18, 2011)
Mann Library has issued an upgrade of the Essential Electronic Agricultural Library, a database of journal articles for the world's poorest countries stored on an external hard drive. (July 9, 2008)
Lara Estroff and colleagues have taken a deep, detailed look at the way lab-created calcite crystals, similar to those found in nature, grow in tandem with proteins and other large molecules. (Nov. 30, 2009)