Millions of bytes of data now streaming to Cornell from the massive Internet Archive will give social and information scientists an unprecedented playing field for research into social networks, sociology department chair Michael…
The editors of Science Spectrum magazine and US Black Engineer & Information Technology magazine have selected Kevin T. Kornegay, Cornell University associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and director of the Cornell Broadband Communications Research Laboratory, as one of the "50 Most Important Blacks in Research Science" for 2004. The award was presented Sept. 18 in Nashville, Tenn., during the Emerald Awards Conference, an event that celebrates the accomplishments of several minorities in science and promotes their greater representation among science professionals. (September 24, 2004)
Events on campus this week include a visit from A.D. White Professor-at-Large Anne Carson, an alumni fiction reading, a public lecture by Arun Gandhi, and films for Valentine's Day Week.
The Africana and Latino Greek Letter Council at Cornell is presenting its annual music, entertainment and fashion benefit called Greek Freak '96 in Bailey Hall on April 18.
Leaders from NASA and from Boeing, Alcoa, SC Johnson and other high-profile companies are among those taking part in a unique conference at Cornell with the theme 'Sustainable Technology Development and New Market Creation.'
Jamaica Kincaid, one of the most important and influential authors writing today, will give a reading Friday, Oct. 17, at 7:30 p.m. in the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall on the Cornell University campus. The event is free and open to the public. Kincaid is the third reader in the James McConkey Readings in American Fiction series sponsored by the Cornell Department of English's Creative Writing Program. The previous readers in the series have been Tobias Wolff, in 2001, and Tim O'Brien, in 1999. (October 15, 2003)
For the first time, more than 65,000 sound clips and some 18,000 video clips of birds and other animals are accessible for no charge at the Macaulay Library's Web site.
Following months of repair and restoration work, Cornell Plantations officials will mark the reopening to the public of the Cascadilla Gorge Trail with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 2 p.m. at the College Avenue trail entrance.
Ivan Hageman, principal and co-founder of the East Harlem School at Exodus House (EHS) in New York City, will speak at Cornell University Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 4:30 p.m. in G73 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.
Alice Fulton, the award-winning poet, writer and professor of English at Cornell, will open the Cornell Plantations free Wednesday night lecture series with a Sept. 10 presentation, "Let the Barbaric Flowers Live: Nature and Poetry."