Just when the recording, music and publishing industries are going all-out to stop people from making their products available on the Internet, a new publishing venture at Cornell University is challenging traditional scholarly publishing by taking the opposite approach: Make the full text of a new book freely available on the Internet, and give readers the option to buy the printed book.
By manipulating the way tiny droplets of fluid dry, Cornell researchers can 'stamp' nanoscale wires and other devices that ordinarily can be made only with expensive lithographic tools. (Oct. 16, 2008)
The technology of the future will come sooner, and be stranger, than any of us can imagine, said Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google Inc., at the Sept. 20 Hatfield lecture. (Sept. 24, 2012)
An autonomous, lightweight robot created by Cornell students for detecting land mines received high marks for design at the 2009 Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition. (June 25, 2009)
Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin, the king of Malaysia, toured the College of Veterinary Medicine Sept. 18 and discussed potential future collaborations between Cornell and the Malaysian national university. (Sept. 21, 2010)
Reinforcing its place in the scientific community, the arXiv repository at Cornell University Library reached a new milestone in October 2008 - half a million e-print postings. (Oct. 8, 2008)
Alumnus Stephen Loewentheil talked about Mathew Brady and the birth of photojournalism during the Civil War at a Cornell Library Salon in New York City Oct. 5. (Oct. 7, 2011)
Ricky Panzer '13 and Alex Friedman '13 have launched a nonprofit organization called Signature Donations, and their first project was to purchase shoes for orphans in Zambia. (Sept. 9, 2010)
The Johnson School's new Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute led a 10-day program with aspiring innovators from around the world in a collaboration with KAUST in Saudi Arabia. (March 31, 2011)