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.
An unusual type of eye - resembling a tiny raspberry and possibly following a design principle that vanished with the extinction of trilobites hundreds of millions of years ago - lives today in a parasitic insect.
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.
Yield: Frogs crossing. On warm, rainy nights over the next few weeks, Cornell University biology students and members of the campus Herpetology Society will gather along a stretch of road in the Ringwood Preserve, about six miles from campus.
Cornell has a prominent share in two Nobel prizes announced this week. Roderick MacKinnon, a visiting researcher at Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), was a co-recipient of the Nobel Prize in chemistry. Robert Engle, a Cornell graduate, M.S., physics, '66, Ph.D., economics, '69, was co-winner of the Nobel in economics. A total of 29 Nobel Prize winners have been affiliated with Cornell as faculty members or alumni. (October 09, 2003)
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings has announced the formation of a new Provost's Advisory Committee on Distance Learning to help in the development of plans for distance-learning activities.
An address by Jackson Katz, founder and director of MVP Strategies Inc., an organization that provides gender violence prevention training and materials to the U.S. military services, colleges, high schools, law enforcement agencies, community organizations and corporations, will highlight activities during Health Awareness Week on the Cornell.
Will this be the gang that could shoot straight? For the past year, engineers and computer programmers from Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, assisted by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the imaging team at Cornell, have been figuring out how to slew a spacecraft precisely and aim its camera perfectly for the final act of its mission: alighting on an asteroid.