With almost a century of experience, 93-year-old Elsie Frost McMurry, professor emerita at Cornell, played dress detective for 16 years, researching and writing in longhand thousands of manuscript pages for her study of American dresses from the 1800s.
Thanks to bioinformatics researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College, cell biologists around the globe will soon have a powerful new tool to model complex biochemical processes within the cell.
The new Staff Retirement Incentive program is generating much discussion. To answer questions, a series of open forums is being offered every Friday in March.
A world-famous novel written two centuries ago by an 18-year-old Englishwoman will be required reading for all Cornell University incoming freshman and undergraduate transfer students in fall 2002. The newest selection for the New Student Reading Project seems the perfect choice. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein not only gave the world it's first characterization of the "mad scientist," inspiring scores of movies and books, points out Cornell Vice Provost Isaac Kramnick, but it raised concerns about the role of science in the modern world that seem more relevant than ever today. (March 13, 2002)
Sloppy Slope Jolt is the winning ice cream flavor in the annual ice cream-making competition in Cornell University's Food Science 101. It references Cornell's Libe slope -- caffeine for studying and the indulgence of Slope Day with brownies, hazelnuts and caramel. (December 06, 2005)
The definitive Hurricane Katrina play was written three months before the storm hit. The play is "Pink Collar Crime" by New Orleans actress-playwright Yvette Sirker, Cornell Class of '84. (November 30, 2005)
This fall, Cornell will conduct a one-year experiment in legal downloading of music. A campuswide site license for the Napster online music service will provide students with streaming and downloading access to the company's library of more than 750,000 songs.
On Sept. 6 and 7, anthropologists, historians, sociologists and even an exiled Peruvian general will join forces on the Cornell campus to consider the question: How is the military being redefined in different corners of the globe as the 20th century draws to a close?
SAN FRANCISCO -- Using spectral tools for infrared and submillimeter wave observations, astronomers are looking for the building blocks of life in all the right places: where there might be oxygen and where it is wet.