Almost the entire permanent collection -- more than 27,000 objects -- of Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art will be made available for viewing on the World Wide Web over the next two years.
Nanobiotechnologists at Cornell University have built and pilot-tested the first biomolecular motors with tiny metal propellers. Success in fabricating and operating hybrid organic-inorganic nanodevices the size of virus particles is reported by the Cornell team of biophysicists and engineers in the Nov. 24 issue of the journal Science.
Stewart J. Schwab, professor of law at Cornell Law School and a specialist in labor and employment law, and tort and contract law, has been named the new dean of the Law School, Cornell President Jeffrey S. Lehman announced today.
Give Cari Holcomb a pen and she'll draw you a picture. Disabilities may have limited her employability but have not prevented the 28-year-old Tompkins County, N.Y., resident from making artwork all her life, she says. That's why the idea of designing and making brightly colored datebook covers and greeting cards and selling them locally appealed to her. You can now buy Holcomb's dinosaur datebooks for $5 apiece, and soon you will see her cards at the Ithaca Farmers' Market CraftAbility Collective booth run by Challenge Industries, a vocational rehabilitation agency in Ithaca. She and seven other Challenge service recipients with disabilities sell their work there Tuesdays and Saturdays thanks to a new Challenge self-employment program, a grant from the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation and a little help from three Cornell University MBA students and a local credit union. (June 18, 2002)
Community colleges nationwide serve 11 million students and are under increased public pressure to develop new programs to meet the training needs of the 21st century workforce and to expand educational opportunities for high school graduates and older workers who need to develop new skills.
The Society for the Humanities has for more than four decades spearheaded propagation of new knowledge and introduced interdisciplinary approaches to study that have had lasting institutional consequences. (Feb. 8, 2008)
The following are quotations from an address by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at Cornell's Senior Convocation, held from noon to 1 p.m. on May 25 in Barton Hall.
Regularly scheduled help sessions for such large, introductory science courses as biology, chemistry and physics ... free tutoring ... free workshops on how to improve study skills ... a van service for students with physical…
It's a problem faced by people joining noisy parties and by midshipman fish seeking mates: How to cut through the racket and find Mr. Right? Now Cornell University biologists, who became underwater disc jockeys to study a homely fish that hums, say they have a clue as to how mate selection works.
Prior to World War II, America was a largely rural nation, but many of the documents that chronicle the history of rural life are drying, cracking and crumbling away on the shelves of libraries of state colleges of agriculture.