Five Cornell undergraduates have been selected to receive the 1998 Fuerst Outstanding Library Student Employee Awards. The awards, funded by an endowment from alumnus William F. Fuerst Jr. '39, recognize undergraduate library student workers for their exceptional performance, leadership and service to the campus.
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)
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
The Cornell Biodiversity Laboratory, an education/research field station at Punta Cana on the eastern coast of the Dominican Republic, has been expanded and renamed the Punta Cana Association on Sustainability and Biodiversity. The newly formed consortium of academic and nonprofit organizations will accommodate the growing number of such organizations interested in using the field laboratory and the expanding environmental resources and facilities at Punta Cana. (February 25, 2003)