Ahmed Ahmed’s ’17 life story is a remarkable tale of a young man who combined hard work with inspiration and guidance from others to grow as a person, from a refugee to a Rhodes scholar.
LibeCast, Cornell University Library's new webcasting initiative, offers video and audio programs about the library and its many exhibitions, events, lectures and services. (June 4, 2007)
William Forsythe, the newest A.D. White Professor-at-Large, is best known for using technology to explore the architecture of his dynamic, 21-century form of ballet. (Nov. 23, 2009)
Andrew C. Winters, founding director of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Office of Capital Project Development, will lead the development of Cornell's new tech campus on Roosevelt Island. (April 12, 2012)
A memorial service for Cornell freshman Matthew Pearlstone will be held Monday, April 3, at 5 p.m. in the Townhouse Community Center on North Campus. Rev. Janet Shortall and Rabbi Ed Rosenthal will lead the service.
Pearlstone,…
World-renowned architect Richard Meier '56, B.Arch. '57, is returning to Cornell's campus -- not just for his 50th reunion or to view the progress of his landmark campus building, but for the premier of a video -- "Big Red to…
Senior Lisa Jones had an 'over-the-top' workload last week, with prelims and course assignments due Oct. 1. Even so, she added one more item to her to-do list: Start up a company over the weekend. (Oct. 2, 2012)
Johann Peter Krusius, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Cornell University and a co-inventor of an important new flat-screen television and video technology, died of cancer on January 30, 2003, at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca. He was 58. At Cornell, where he was a former director both of the Joint Services Electronics Program and the Electronic Packaging Program, he led a research group that designed and developed techniques for joining color ßat-panel television and video screens to make large active matrix LCDs (liquid crystal displays) made up of three panels tiled together into a single, seamless piece of glass. (February 4, 2003)
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered an innovative method to make an unlimited supply of healthy blood cells from the readily available cells that line blood vessels.
A gold mine of information collected by the U.S. Bureau of the Census but previously inaccessible to researchers could be used to tackle a range of social issues, according to John M. Abowd, professor of labor economics in Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations.