A look at how the Internet is changing the basic business paradigm, with a special focus on the hospitality industry, is the topic of a special panel discussion that is a key event in this year's Hotel Ezra Cornell (HEC).
Events on campus this week include Earth Day, CNN's Fareed Zakaria on global affairs, Moliere's satire of academic and cultural pretension, and contemporary folk music star Ellis Paul. (April 21, 2011)
Ithaca High School sophomores and juniors trekked across the Cornell campus for two days in March, visiting the Johnson Art Museum, the Cornell Ceramics Studio and the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS).
"Technology for 21st Century Teaching," offered by Cornell's Office of Distance Learning, will be held Friday, April 3, beginning at 8 p.m. in Room 105 ILR Conference Center, Garden Avenue. There is no registration fee.
The root systems of trees are known to be major storage banks for carbon dioxide (CO2), a major greenhouse gas implicated in global warming. Figuring out exactly how much of the carbon is held by these roots has been complicated by the difficulty of predicting the mass of the underground root systems. But now Cornell University professor of plant biology Karl Niklas and a colleague have proposed a mathematical sealing model that is able to predict very accurately size-dependent relationships for small- and intermediate-size plants, from the very smallest herbaceous plants to the world's tallest trees. In doing so, the model can determine the mass of root systems. (January 31, 2005)
Are men really taking on more responsibilities in the home, as some recent surveys have indicated? If so, will women and men inevitably strike life balance between home and work?
Forget the flat-topped, rheumy-eyed giant with the zombie shuffle and the rigor-mortis grin. That's kid stuff. This is the real thing: Frankenstein, the book, written by an 18-year-old Englishwoman named Mary Shelley. And Cornell and the entire Ithaca community are in on it. More than 3,500 new students at Cornell, as well as many faculty, staff and continuing students.
Cornell researchers are fine-tuning a new technique they developed to rapidly detect a deadly fish virus that has increasingly appeared in the Great Lakes and neighboring waterways. (Feb. 14, 2007)
'Change in the Global System' is the theme for a series of lectures and exhibits Oct. 10-17 when the Cornell Department of Geological Sciences and the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) celebrate national Earth Science Week.
The eyes have it this month as Cornell hosts a month-long, cutting-edge exhibition of international CD-ROM art projects at electronic sites around campus, in conjunction with a two-day public workshop on the digital arts.