Chinese artist Wenda Gu, the creator of two major installations now on display at Cornell, will participate in a lecture and symposium on his work at the Johnson Museum in early March. (Feb. 20, 2007)
Although Cornell's Solar Decathlon team did not fare as well this year as in 2005, the biennial competition held on the National Mall last week proved to be an invaluable experience for team members, students said. (Oct. 22, 2007)
Most of the work of Cornell ergonomist Alan Hedge focuses on applying ergonomic design criteria to make workplaces more productive, such as redesigning computer stations, keyboards and mice, chairs and lighting.
NEW YORK -- Ankit Patel, Cornell '04, a first-year M.D.-Ph.D. student, was elected Weill Cornell student overseer during elections held April 3-10 at Weill Cornell Medical College (WCMC). As the student representative, Patel will…
"Are We All Equal Under the Law?" will be the question discussed at the fifth annual civil rights symposium sponsored by the Cornell Political Forum Tuesday, April 14, at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall Auditorium.
Co-founders of El Puente, the Brooklyn-based school and community youth development organization that nurtures holistic leadership for peace and social justice, will speak on "Education for Social Justice: El Puente," Wednesday, Sept. 25, from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in Goldwin Smith Hall Auditorium D on the Cornell University campus. The program, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Iscol Family Program for Leadership Development in Public Service, an interdisciplinary program in Cornell's College of Human Ecology. The program is designed to inspire undergraduate students to become leaders in public service who will address the intractable problems that face society, such as hunger, poverty, ignorance, homelessness and violence. (September 19, 2002)
The History of Art Majors Society has curated interactive art representing the human body for an annual exhibition at the Johnson Museum, 'Exquisite Corpus: Interacting with the Fragmented Body.' (May 6, 2008)
By Cornelliana Night on June 11, the traditional final event of Reunion Weekend at Cornell, most alumni had heard the news of President Jeffrey Lehman's resignation during his State of the University address earlier that day. They were a little dazed, and more than a little sad. "In a weekend of nostalgia, it's a dose of reality," said Ira Winsten '80. "To see him out after two years, it's a surprise."
In the lobby of Cornell University's Thurston Hall, floor-to-ceiling windows provide a sweeping view of the four-story crane bay of the George Winter Laboratory with its mysterious monolithic constructs of concrete and steel. This massive lab, one-third the size of a football field, has become the home for a National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded $2.1 million project to establish the nation's premier center for large-scale earthquake simulation experiments. The completed lab will have its public debut on Nov. 15 with an NSF-sponsored live webcast of an experiment designed to study the deformation and rupturing of underground pipelines -- carrying, for example, water, natural gas, liquid fuel or telecommunications -- during an earthquake. The experiment will be described by the earthquake facility's director Harry Stewart, an associate professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE). His co-investigator is Thomas O'Rourke, a CEE professor who first became interested in earthquake-pipeline research about 25 years ago while working as a research engineer digging the Metro tunnels in Washington, D.C. (November 15, 2004)