In a commentary published in the Chronicle of Higher Education, President David Skorton calls on the higher education community to help the country solves its most pressing challenges. (Nov. 21, 2008)
The EMBA - or executive option to the MBA program at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management - allows working professionals to earn a master's degree in business administration in just two years, without a break in service from their regular jobs or a loss in salary.
After a week of tense and intense judging in the 2005 Solar Decathlon solar-house design contest, the Cornell University team took second place to the University of Colorado in the final rankings.
Three Cornell faculty members have been awarded Sloan Research Fellowships for 1998: Dong Lai, assistant professor of astronomy; Gregory Morrisett, assistant professor of computer science, and Michael J. Spivey-Knowlton, assistant professor of psychology.
Many intelligent, reasonable people regard literary theory as the equivalent of -- well, if not of drinking sand, then at least of drinking motor oil. And Cornell English Department chair and Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature Jonathan Culler is well aware of that belief.
A late-model lander and rover, equipped with a Cornell scientific instrument package called Athena, will roam and study a large corridor of the Martian highlands and ancient terrain.
That alliance is the theme of a conference that will be held at Cornell April 11-13, titled "History and Memory: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference." All programs are free and open to the public and will be held in the A.D. White House.
The Cornell University Institute for Animal Welfare has been established to foster discussion and research on issues concerning animals in agriculture, laboratories and the wild.
Jupiter's intricate, swirling ring system is formed by dust kicked up as interplanetary meteoroids smash into the giant planet's four, small inner moons, according to scientists studying data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Images sent by Galileo also reveal that the outermost ring is actually two rings, one embedded within the other.
In real life machines that analyze DNA are about the size of a refrigerator. Cornell researchers are working on a "biochip" -- an "artificial gel" made of silicon -- that might be a step toward the science fiction dream.