The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell has announced the acquisition of a painting by noted American artist Edward Hopper. The painting, titled Monhegan Landscape, was donated to the museum by Cornell alumnus Herbert Gussman '33 of Tulsa, Okla., a Presidential Councillor.
Skeptics have claimed that video evidence of an ivory-billed woodpecker is really a pileated woodpecker, but Cornell University researchers offered a frame-by-frame analysis of a video showing why they stand by their claim.
Cornell's Society for the Humanities will focus on 'Culture and Conflict' during 2005-06, with visiting and Cornell faculty offering seminars directly related to the theme.
Planners of the new Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, where construction will begin this month in anticipation of a Winter 2002 opening, face a daunting challenge.
An instrument aboard NASA's recently launched orbiting infrared observatory has found evidence of organic molecules in an enormously powerful galaxy some 3.25 billion light years from the Earth.
Tibetan monks from the Dalai Lama's personal monastery in Dharamsala, India, will present an evening of ritual dance and traditional Tibetan monastic music, Sept. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Alice Statler Auditorium.
As certain clairvoyant groundhogs lead the charge toward spring, Cornell climatologists say that, statistically, the bulk of winter's bad weather already may be behind us as of Feb 2.
Santa Claus around the world is known in many guises: He is Father Christmas in Britain and Kris Kringle in Germany. In Hawaii, Santa arrives by outrigger canoe, and in Australia, by water skis wearing a red bathing suit.
Among the workplace amenities that life scientists value is a good library, according to a survey published recently by The Scientist. Cornell, which has one of the best library systems in the world, recently enhanced its…
Through a collection of alumni stories, the Consortium on Financing Higher Education looks at the ways universities serve the public. Renowned pediatrician Margaret Morgan Lawrence '36 is profiled in the piece.