Asian-American/Asian students, especially males, are under unique pressures to meet high expectations of parents by succeeding in such traditional predetermined careers as medicine and engineering, said Dr. Henry Chung '84, assistant vice president for student health at New York University, speaking on campus April 13. (April 19, 2006)
Far above Cayuga's waters -- hundreds of miles, in fact -- NASA astronaut and Cornell University alumnus Ed Lu reached out today (Sept. 4) and spoke via shortwave radio directly to fellow Cornellians for 11 minutes. Lu was aboard the International Space Station some 240 miles above Earth as it passed over North America. It was the first time Cornell students had spoken to an astronaut in space. "This is really exciting, this is great and it all worked," said Chase Million, a Cornell junior from Hagerstown, Ind., who is president of the Cornell Amateur Radio Club. As a physics major, Million plans on a career in the space industry after he graduates. "Today was more than just a hands-on experience, we actually got to talk to a guy who is on the space station." (September 04, 2003)
A Rochester developer has announced plans to construct a 106-room hotel at the corner of Route 13 and Warren Road in the Cornell Business and Technology Park.
NEW YORK (Feb. 13, 2006) -- Smokers and former smokers should be screened for lung cancer even if they don't have symptoms, according to a new study led by physician-scientists at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell…
Two members of Cornell University's faculty – one from Lebanon, the other from South Africa, one studying plant reproduction, the other probing black holes – have been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Founded as the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future in 2007 and then named and permanently endowed by David R. and Patricia Atkinson three years later, the Atkinson Center funds multidisciplinary solutions to sustainability challenges throughout the world.
By probing single-wall carbon nanotubes with an atomic force microscope (AFM), researchers at Cornell have found new ways to cut and bend the tiny tubes.
Using the radar systems at the National Science Foundation's recently upgraded radio/radar telescope at Arecibo, Puerto Rico, and at NASA's Goldstone Solar System Radar in California, astronomers have obtained the most-detailed pictures yet of an asteroid.
Challenge Industries has begun operation of the state-of-the-art Cornell Hydroponics Facility, an 8,000-square-foot greenhouse using Cornell-developed technology to grow lettuce.