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.
Cornell University food science, engineering and computer science students have joined forces to develop a web-based software and a database to track and compare genetic footprints, or characteristics, of bacteria.
Twenty-five scholars from the Caribbean, South America and Africa will examine the status of black studies programs abroad at a conference presented by the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell, Sept. 19 and 20.
Cornell women are well-represented in the 'Ladies Home Journal 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century.' During the meeting, which took place two months before the death of Princess Diana, Norton and the other advisers reduced the original master list to about 150 names.
Harold Gould and Lea Shampanier Gould, Cornell graduates and distinguished stage, television and film actors, will star as Willy and Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman, to be presented Sept. 18-20 and 25-27 in the Proscenium Theatre of the Center for Theatre Arts.
A symposium to help science educators find ways of building programs that will encourage science students to consider international experiences as fundamental to their education will be held at Cornell June 9- 12.
U.S. Navy Lt. Bibianna Danko '99, who flies one of the largest helicopters in the world, has been using her piloting skills to rescue victims of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.