Push a number on a palm-sized cell phone and the signal travels to an interior chip with physical features some five orders of magnitude smaller than the number button. That connection is called "electronic packaging," and the challenges presented by this huge discrepancy in size are becoming a serious problem for microelectronics.
About 50 middle and high school teachers attended the Cornell Science Sampler Series, a free workshop to give teachers ideas for hands-on activities to inspire their students in science. (March 28, 2012)
The School of Criticism and Theory immerses participants in a broad range of topics in the humanities and social sciences, from poetry, art and literary history to political science and cultural movements. (July 14, 2009)
The Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club will travel to cities in mainland China to perform for a wide range of audiences, building on the Cornell-China relationship founded more than a century ago. (Feb. 20, 2008)
In the second in a series of interviews with Cornell's campaign co-chairs, Andrew Tisch '71, member of the board of trustees and co-chair of Loews Corp., talks about philanthropy. (Oct. 6, 2011)
This year's Mid-Autumn Festival, Sept. 18 on the Arts Quad, attracted some 1,000 visitors and marked the first time that seven Asian and Asian-American student organizations collaborated. (Sept. 21, 2010)
'M.H. Abrams at Cornell University,' with text and multimedia materials on the career and legacy of the influential scholar, joins an online digital archive of biographies and department histories. (Feb. 18, 2010)
New, incoming students will be welcomed to Cornell with a week of activities, events, trips and speakers, tailored just for them. Approximately 3,300 freshman, 500 transfer students and 1,500 new graduate and professional students will flock to campus.
Pet a lamb, milk a cow and see how animal scientists care for a variety of farm animals at the open house at Cornell University's Animal Science Teaching and Research Center in Dryden on Saturday, Oct. 3. This free open house will feature tours of the center.
Kathy Luz Herrera, an activist, union electrician at Cornell and second-term Tompkins County legislator, spoke about her activist background, Jan. 31, in Sage Chapel as part of the 'Soup for Hope' series. (Feb. 1, 2008)