Events on campus this week include a book talk on the American Dream, 150 bugs at Insectapalooza, The Big Draw at the Johnson Museum, a classic horror film in Sage Chapel and Halloween treats.
The Buildings and Properties Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees unanimously approved the design phase of the new humanities building, the first at Cornell in over 100 years. (Jan. 20, 2012)
These clothes soon may be all the rave: Fiber science and physics students have teamed to create fashionable “smart” garments with vivid, luminescent panels that pulse to music.
Dig into digital agriculture, comprehend plant breeding biotechnology, and learn out how the microbiome may solve food production problems at an agricultural technology and partnership forum June 7.
In his new book “Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe,” mathematician Steven Strogatz explores the history, big ideas and applications of a subject that is essential in everything from how smartphones operate to the latest innovations in medicine.
Historians and writers joined biologists and conservationists at an April 11 event hosted by the Cornell Roundtable on Environmental Studies Topics to discuss the connections between art and science.
Eduardo M. Peñalver ’94 will step down as the Allan R. Tessler Dean of Cornell Law School in January and depart for Seattle University next summer. Jens David Ohlin, vice dean and professor of law, will take over as the Law School’s interim dean.
David Wolfe, professor in the School of Integrative Plant Science, told a congressional committee in a hearing on agricultural resiliency that climate change impacts have been more complex and severe than scientists had forecast three decades ago.