About 18 Cornell University students hired by the Cornell Theory Center for its SciFair outreach program serve as online mentors to middle and high school students across the nation to help them research, design and build virtual worlds based on such issues as Mars exploration and the human genome project. (December 07, 2005)
Children at a small rural music school in Costa Rica will receive like-new instruments and one-on-one lessons when the Cornell University Wind Ensemble tours there in January. (December 05, 2005)
Neuroscience for high schoolers? Why not, says Cornell University neurobiologist Ron Hoy. To prove his point that the subject can be exciting for young people to study, Hoy and a Cornell development team of colleagues and undergraduates have developed a suite of novel, interdisciplinary multimedia teaching tools.
Events on campus this week include: Native American Smokedance competition, Vet College open house, Big Red Relief concert for Haiti, MTV media expert and several sustainability-related lectures. (April 8, 2010)
Through a dense jungle of cables and a labyrinth of computer terminals in an office perched at the top of an ivy-covered law school, the Legal Information Institute at Cornell uses the World Wide Web to spread legal knowledge to county planners in rural areas.
Sunday brunches in Appel Commons hosted by medieval studies professor Paul Hyams feature special guest speakers and students in informal conversation that, like the brunch buffet, is colorful, diverse and never less than filling.
Representatives from various California digital arts and film production companies, including DreamWorks, will meet with representatives of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning this weekend to discuss the merits of a new academic program on digital arts.
NASA astronaut Daniel T. Barry, a 1975 engineering graduate of Cornell, will describe his experience aboard space shuttle flight STS-72 in a School of Electrical Engineering colloquium planned for Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 4:30 p.m. in 101 Phillips Hall.
People lie, research has shown, in one-fourth of their daily, social interactions. But according to Cornell University communications researchers, people are most likely to lie on the telephone. In fact, the researchers say, phone fibbing is even more likely than when people use e-mail, instant messaging or even speak face-to-face. (February 18, 2004)
Slope Radio, Cornell's online radio station and an established campus presence after one semester of operation, plans to expand into new offices and FM and television broadcasting in 2007.