Forget those shepherding moons. Gravity and the odd shapes of asteroid Chariklo and dwarf planet Haumea can form and maintain their own rings, according new research in Nature Astronomy.
Victor Nee, director of the Center for the Study of Economy and Society, has received a $1.2 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation to study capitalist institutions in China.
Cornell's undergraduate architecture program is again ranked No. 1 in the nation in “America's Best Architecture and Design Schools." Two Cornell graduate programs are also in the top 5.
Charles H. Greene is a professor of Earth and Atmospheric sciences in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University, a fellow at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future and a leading expert in effects of global climate change on ocean ecosystems and extreme weather.
Events this summer include a Fuertes Observatory viewing of the passing of Venus between the sun and the Earth, a six-week Latin dance series, and the 'Collecting Imagination' lecture and exhibition. (May 31, 2012)
Graduating seniors, graduate and professional degree students and family members gathered on Cornell's Arts Quad May 27 before Commencement ceremonies to take pictures, see friends and look to the future. (May 27, 2012)
Professor emeritus of art Zevi Blum, B.Arch. '57, an artist who taught drawing in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning for more than 30 years, died Feb. 25 in San Francisco. He was 77. (March 1, 2011)
In our solar system, moons stay close to home planets. But beyond our cosmic neighborhood, lunar bodies around exoplanets can become castaways and carom across galaxies.
