Following the media uproar over a scientist in Illinois who says he will try to begin human cloning soon, a Cornell professor participated in an Internet discussion Wednesday (Jan. 7) to debunk and denounce the effort.
With snow piling up and as much as 30 inches predicted, Cornell officials closed campus at 12:30 p.m. Feb. 14. It is expected to remain closed until 5 a.m., Feb. 15. (Feb. 14, 2007)
Boyce D. McDaniel, the Cornell University physicist and Manhattan Project scientist who gave the atomic bomb its final check before the first test at Trinity site in July 1945, died of a heart attack May 8 in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 84. McDaniel's faculty career at Cornell spanned 56 years. But his professional start was sudden and dramatic. In 1943, as a newly fledged Ph.D., McDaniel was hired, at $250 a month working 10- to 15-hour days at a secret facility in Los Alamos, N.M., to conduct nuclear physics research on a device nicknamed "the gadget." The device was the atomic bomb, and McDaniel had been hired as a protégé of Robert Bacher, one of several Cornell physicists assigned to the Manhattan Project. The young McDaniel would play a critical role on physicist Robert Wilson's cyclotron research team, which helped identify the amount of the isotope uranium-235 (U-235) needed to create the atomic fission to detonate the world's first nuclear weapon. (May 15, 2002)
Welfare reform provides New York state an opportunity to examine all its programs affecting families, children and work, but to benefit from that opportunity, programs need to be carefully planned and evaluated using state-of-the-art research, a Cornell expert said.
The graham cracker village, with its ice cream cone trees, gum drop lanterns, chocolate graham cracker highways, fruit leather wreaths, candy cane doorways and shredded wheat rooftops looks like something from the kitchen of Willie Wonka's chocolate factory.
U.S. corporations concerned with the high cost and delays of litigation are turning to alternative dispute resolution as a way to resolve various business-related disputes, including employment, environment, workers’ compensation, sexual harassment, securities fraud and age discrimination.
The 20th annual Health Awareness Week on the Cornell is scheduled for Feb. 7-14, and it will feature a free lecture Feb. 9 by Jane Brody, author and Personal Health columnist.
Cornell's Mann Library will soon give agriculture researchers and students in developing countries access to a wealth of technical information they need to increase food production.
Try this: Practice viewing the world as a child, seeing things as they might be, exploring your creative potential. For example, find the letters of the alphabet in everyday objects, such as a cloud that forms a C.
Introduction by Cornell President Hunter Rawlings and Kord. -- 2 p.m.: "The Psychoanalytic Construction of Creativity" by Donald Kuspit, A. D. White Professor at Large at Cornell and professor of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Kuspit, one of America's most distinguished art critics, is a winner of the prestigious Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism (1983) given by the College Art Association. He is a contributing editor at Artforum, Sculpture and New Art Examiner and is editor of Art Criticism. Kuspit, who has studied at the Psychoanalytic Institute of the New York University Medical Center, is author of Signs of Psyche in Modern and Postmodern Art (1994), Health and Happiness in Twentieth Century Avant-Garde Art (with Lynn Gamwell; Cornell University Press, 1996) and Idiosyncratic Identities: Artists at the End of the Avant-Garde (1996).