Cornell University Library is among several large academic research libraries that now operate their own publishing offices to produce high-quality scholarly publications, either by working with local researchers or by partnering with other publishers. (November 17, 2005)
Papers are being accepted for the CISSE 2007 conference; Pi Kappa Phi is hosting a charity haunted house; and submissions are being accepted for the first Margaret Bourke-White Photography Portfolio Prize. (Oct. 18, 2007)
The university has chosen Pritzer Prize winner Thom Mayne and Morphosis to design the first academic building for the tech campus on Roosevelt Island. Cornell is striving to create a net-zero energy structure.
Events this week include traditional Javanese and new electronic music, a talk on the history of synthesizers, the Locally Grown Dance Festival, a panel on Latin American violence and Slope Day.
A consortium of eight New York colleges and universities, including Cornell, will receive grants to support connection to a special high-speed computer network as part of a National Science Foundation grant announced by President Bill Clinton yesterday (Feb. 26).
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.
Two Cornell student teams are among 10 selected nationally for phase two of a government competition to spark interest in geothermal careers and education. (April 26, 2012)
A recent Cornell graduate and a current junior, both from the College of Arts and Sciences, have just received major national awards: the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies and the Beinecke Brothers Memorial Scholarship.