After graduating from Cornell, Debra Smith '03 went to Namibia, where she taught school in a village, coached a novice team of teenage girls to the national championship in volleyball and was a surgical assistant in an Angolan hospital.
Roving Mars, an IMAX film documenting NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, opens in theaters Jan. 27. 'It will be that immersion experience -- of being completely surrounded and overwhelmed with Mars,' says Cornell's Jim Bell.
Jason Koski/University PhotographyLeaders of the ACCEL program within the Provost's Office will be, from left, Provost Biddy Martin; Shelley Correll, associate professor of sociology; Marjolein van der Meulen, associate professor…
Francisco Valero-Cuevas, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at Cornell, has been awarded a $239,992 research grant by the Whitaker Foundation to study the human thumb.
OMAAn artist's rendering of a view of Milstein Hall, connecting Sibley and Rand halls.
Milstein Hall, the newest building of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP), will be many things for many people: a…
After nine years away, David Koehler will return to Cornell as director of business information systems for Cornell Information Technologies Oct. 1. He will lead Cornell's multimillion-dollar project to modernize its administrative systems over the next five years.
Cornell scientists have achieved a "Holy Grail" of materials science -- pure, single crystal growth of any film on a semiconductor substrate, a technique that holds promise to revolutionize electronics.
Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences honored outstanding teaching and scholarship at its annual Dean's Award Convocation on April 4. Dean Philip E. Lewis led the afternoon celebration in a packed auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall.
Preventing the "freshman 15" and perhaps even the national obesity epidemic could be as simple as stepping on a scale every morning or getting a little info about big portions in all-you-can-eat dining halls, according to two new studies by David Levitsky at Cornell University. (November 22, 2005)
Benjamin Widom, Cornell University Goldwin Smith Professor of Chemistry, is honored with a special issue of the journal Molecular Physics. (November 15, 2005)