Events on campus in July include free concerts, lectures and performances; the annual Summer Party at the Johnson Museum of Art, and Staff Development Day for employees.
More than 190 years after her death, botanical illustrator Mary Kingsbury Wollstonecraft is finally getting her due thanks to digitization by Cornell's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.
Researchers in the lab of Charles Danko have developed a new tool to study genetic “switches” active in glioblastoma tumors that drive growth of the cancer.
Thanks to Paul '60 and Helen Anbinder '62, about 20 books - including 14 of Ruscha's photographic artist's books, most signed by the artist - will be available at the library. (May 19, 2011)
Art DeGaetano is the director of the Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC), professor of earth and atmospheric sciences and an expert on climate data at Cornell University. He says Cape Cod and parts of Long Island will see tropical storm conditions, including heavy rain and hazardous surf.
Events on campus this week include viewing of the total lunar eclipse at Fuertes Observatory; Banned Books Week; animation screening in Sage Chapel and Jack DeJohnette's jazz quintet in Bailey Hall.
A group of Cornell researchers has shown the ability to functionalize cotton fabric with a porous beta-cyclodextrin polymer, which can sequester organic micropollutants in both water and air.
The President’s Visioning Committee on Cornell in New York City is holding an open forum and discussion Tuesday, March 27, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in G10 Biotech.
A Cornell study finds that in New York state, experienced fruit pickers are paid an average $10.65 per hour, and inexperienced dairy hands make $8.39 per hour, compared with the $7.25 minimum wage. (Feb. 2, 2011)
