Events on campus this week include a folk concert, forums on bridge barriers, lectures from Gettleman, Prasad, McEuen and Vangeline, Johnson Museum reception, and Vet College open house.
Engineers for a Sustainable World, a nonprofit organization based at Cornell, sponsored students to work on engineering projects in developing countries this summer.
Events this week include piano improvisations in Bailey Hall, coffee and birds at the Lab of Ornithology, Judy's Day at Cornell Plantations, and a regional cancer and environment forum. (Sept. 17, 2009)
Jeff Hawkins, the inventor of the PalmPilot, is being honored by Cornell Sept. 22 as the 2000 Entrepreneur of the Year and will deliver an address at 4 p.m. that day on campus in the Statler Auditorium. The talk is free and open to the public.
The 2005 North American James Joyce Conference held June 14-18 at Cornell University was "bloody inspirin' fine," as the American poet Ezra Pound wrote in 1918 to the Irish author after reading an early chapter of "Ulysses."
Offering career networking for students and reviewing recent developments at their alma mater will be the focus of the annual spring conference of the President's Council of Cornell Women when it meets on March 7-9.
Leave it to Bill Nye "the Science Guy" to turn a traditional piece of calibration equipment into a really cool, state-of-the-art scientific instrument. As he was looking over the designs for instruments to be carried aboard NASA's 2001 Mars Surveyor Lander.
PASADENA, Calif. -- The Cornell University-developed, mast-mounted panoramic camera, called the Pancam, on board the rovers Spirit and Opportunity will provide the clearest, most-detailed Martian landscapes ever seen. The image resolution -- equivalent to 20/20 vision for a person standing on the Martian surface -- will be three times higher than that recorded by the cameras on the Mars Pathfinder mission in 1997 or the Viking Landers in the mid-1970s.
Former ambassador Paul Wolfowitz, Johns Hopkins University, will discuss "Back to the Future? Will This Century Be as Bloody as the Last?" Friday, June 9.