Low-skilled services aren't the only occupations shifting overseas, says the ILR School's Sarosh Kuruvilla. His latest research shows that many high-skilled U.S. jobs are being outsourced to India. (July 12, 2007)
Cornell plans to invest up to to $46 million in energy conservation. The goal? Reducing energy use by as much as 20 percent and taking a big step toward a zero-carbon footprint. (March 10, 2011)
Beef Field Day will be held Saturday, July 22, on the Cornell campus at Morrison Hall from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. This event is sponsored by the Cornell Department of Animal Science and the New York Beef Producers Association.
Youngsters from the Southside Community Center Summer Day Camp and community residents are enjoying Cornell University's resources and attractions on weekly field trips, thanks to the The Cornell Connection, the Cornell-Ithaca Partnership's (C-IP) first program to be up and running.
Researchers at Cornell are testing devices that could form the basis for a potential ultrasmall computer data storage system that could gather up to 100 times as much information in the same space as present-day magnetic data disks.
The Cornell College of Business is on track to launch in the coming academic year, said Dean Soumitra Dutta. Open forums about next steps will be held over the next two weeks for faculty, staff, students and alumni.
Dr. JoAnn Difede, a psychologist at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center and an expert in the treatment of trauma, is using virtual reality exposure therapy to treat post-traumatic stress disorder in victims of the WTC attacks, as well as to treat a number of phobias in the general public.
Events on campus this week include an architecture roadshow; the Alloy Orchestra scoring three silent films; a roundtable on Ebola's impact on Africa; and international readings on World War I.
SEATTLE -- A Cornell University researcher is developing techniques for making photonic microchips -- in which streams of electrons are replaced by beams of light -- including ways to guide and bend light in air or a vacuum, to switch a beam of light on and off and to connect nanophotonic chips to optical fiber. Michal Lipson, an assistant professor at Cornell, in Ithaca, N.Y., described recent research by the Nanophotonics Group in Cornell's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Seattle on Sunday, Feb. 15. Her talk was part of a symposium on "21st Century Photonics." (February 11, 2004)
Cornell University will host a forum on the controversial issue of digital copyright, titled 'The Download Debate Strikes Back,' April 14 at 7:30 p.m. in Call Auditorium of Kennedy Hall, on campus. The public is invited to attend. The forum will be streamed live on the Web. (April 11, 2005)