Harvard physicist Lisa Randall will deliver the Hans Bethe lecture May 1. Her talk is titled, 'Knocking on Heaven's Door,' the name of her latest book. (April 11, 2012)
In a whirlwind of seminars, plenary sessions and corridor conversations, 17 Cornell students and six faculty attended COP24 in Katowice, Poland in December.
Los Angeles artist Jessica Rath worked with Professor Susan Brown to use Cornell apple trees as a basis for a photography exhibit in Pasadena next year. (June 16, 2011)
The star attraction at Dragon Day 2012, March 16 on the Cornell campus, will reflect traditions of East and West - the Chinese Year of the Dragon meeting a Mayan motif. (March 15, 2012)
1 million and counting: Scientific-paper repository arXiv has reached milestone with a million submissions. Cornell University Library has provided stewardship for arXiv, since its founder, Paul Ginsparg, joined the faculty in 2001.
Faculty, students and administrators discussed global experiences, opportunities and challenges on campus and abroad at a recent symposium on Internationalizing the Curriculum at Cornell.
About 57 years after Cornell opened, Willard Straight Hall opened its doors Nov. 18, 1925. The building, bustling with music, dance and club meetings, achieved instant success and a richer student social life unfolded.
Mark Ferraguto has been awarded the American Musicological Society's Pisk Prize, which recognizes the most outstanding scholarly paper read by a graduate student at the society's annual meeting. (Jan. 19, 2012)
A new Cornell-designed algorithm inspired by mammal brains both sheds light on how the brain works and, applied to a computer chip, learns patterns better than existing machine learning models.