A collection of writings by Edgar Allan Poe -- along with a jagged wooden fragment of his coffin -- will be on display at Cornell University Library just in time for Halloween.
The new exhibition, "Nevermore: The Edgar Allan Poe…
The first near-Earth triple asteroid was discovered this week by astronomers using the radar telescope at Arecibo Observatory. The objects, which are rotating around each other, are about 7 million miles from Earth. (Feb. 13, 2008)
Reporter Beth (Jackendoff) Harpaz, a 1981 graduate of Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences and author of the new book, The Girls in the Van: Covering Hillary (St. Martin's Press), will visit the Cornell campus Feb. 4.
The university is moving to make all its Web sites -- from the Cornell front page to individual course sites -- accessible to all users, including those with visual, hearing or other disabilities. (Jan. 29, 2008)
Student Agencies eLab, the nonprofit accelerator for undergraduate businesses, is helping nine student groups this semester develop and grow their business ideas.
Cornell just opened its new $6 million Biofuels Research Laboratory, where Cornell scientists and students from across the university are examining sustainable and economical biofuel production. (April 1, 2009)
A new exhibition, "Will Boys Be Boys? Questioning Adolescent Masculinity in Contemporary Art," now through Jan. 8 at the Johnson Museum, explores, deconstructs and redefines "boy-ness" as a socially determined identity. (November 04, 2005)
Melissa Hines, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been named director of the Cornell Center for Materials Research, after the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced renewed funding for the center for the next six years.