The Mind and Memory: Exploring Creativity in the Arts and Sciences course begins this month at Cornell and runs through April. This annual course, the brainchild of Cornell emeritus professor and author James McConkey.
More than just dust was kicked up when NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous spacecraft, NEAR Shoemaker, made a successful landing on asteroid 433 Eros on Feb. 12. Also disturbed were the memories of an experiment carried out more than three decades ago by a student of Thomas Gold, professor emeritus of astronomy at Cornell.
The Cornell Hangovers, an a cappella group made up of members of the Cornell Glee Club, begins a 10-day, spring-break tour of the Far East on Friday, March 13.
Black History Month is about "recognizing the fact that African-Americans as a people made major contributions to American history and culture," says Margaret Washington, an associate professor of history at Cornell.
Researchers are using nanotechnology to build microscopic silicon devices with features comparable in size to DNA, proteins and other biological molecules – to count molecules, analyze them, separate them, perhaps even work with them one at a time.
Cornell Law School Professor Larry Palmer, a nationally renowned expert on health policy and law, will join the Institute for Bioethics, Health Policy and Law in Louisville, Ky., in January 2003.
NEW YORK -- Getting a job after being a postdoctoral researcher doesn't just require demonstrated and potential excellence in research, but a value-added skill that will make the scientist unique to a potential employer. So said…
The heavens are sharper than ever before to the Earth-bound watcher, thanks to astronomers at Cornell and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Cornell researchers have built an infrared camera for the California Institute of Technology's 200-inch Hale telescope.