A new book by Daniel R. Altschuler, director of the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, makes a big bang itself as it creatively attempts to answer some of these questions while covering topics ranging from astronomy to physics, and paleontology to geology.
How can the Cornell campus do more when it comes to energy efficiency, recycling, reducing pollution, preserving green areas and other efforts that promote sustainability?
Randall Robinson, African-American author and internationally respected advocate for human rights and democracy, will deliver a public talk Friday, Feb. 9, at 7 p.m. in the David Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall.
The Cornell University Glee Club will perform two concerts in the Los Angeles Area on Jan. 15 and 16. The 60-member male choir directed by Scott Tucker will be in the midst of a two-week tour of the West Coast.
Cornell University food scientists and veterinarians have won a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate how Listeria monocytogenes – the deadliest of all foodborne bacteria – evolve and travel in food, humans, animals, water and soil.
Public single-sex schools, once thought out of step, are returning -- promoted by an unlikely coalition of progressive and conservative groups. Communities need to know whether these schools are constitutional -- as well as whether they are good for young people, says Cornell University Law Professor Gary Simson. (April 07, 2005)
Ten plant-related topics, from the natural history of Henry Thoreau to the search for new jungle medicine, are scheduled in the Cornell Plantations Fall 1997 Lecture Series, beginning Sept. 18.
Shawhin Roudbari, a graduate student in Cornell University's School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, is working to help rural communities in South Africa hold on to more of their precious resource of water, which appears only briefly in late summer, leaving dry farmland when winter returns. He is one of six EWF-USA volunteers who are using their engineering skills to make a difference overseas this summer. He is spending three months designing and building rainwater storage tanks and installing them in eight villages, supported by a partnership of the International Water Management Institute, a research organization headquartered in Sri Lanka, and Engineers Without Frontiers USA (EWF-USA), a two-year-old national nonprofit group based at Cornell and supported by the university. (August 19, 2003)
Biddy Martin leaves a legacy of academic achievement at Cornell. Chronicle writer Daniel Aloi interviewed her earlier this month about her Cornell years and her new job as chancellor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (Aug. 26, 2008)