By applying scientific principles used to create models for understanding cell biology and physics to the challenges of cosmology and big data, Cornell researchers have developed a promising algorithm to map a multifaceted set of probabilities.
In an exclusive symposium designed for Cornell students, officials from the United Nations detailed a new 15-year initiative on battling climate change worldwide.
Best-selling novelist and astrophysicist Alan Lightman read from two of his books during a Feb. 20-21 visit to campus. His works straddle the arts and sciences. (March 2, 2011)
Biologist Thomas Seeley read passages from his book 'Honeybee Democracy' at a Literary Luncheon hosted by President David Skorton and Robin Davisson, who, with Seeley's help, recently took up beekeeping.
Hirokazu Miyazaki, professor of anthropology and director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, spoke to the Chronicle about an upcoming conference and its theme of collaboration.
After 20 years of leadership that transformed Weill Cornell Medical College into a global health care enterprise, Sanford I. Weill ’55 will retire as chair of the Board of Overseers Jan. 1. Jessica M. Bibliowicz ’81, a financial services entrepreneur who has served on the board for the past decade, will succeed him.
If you want to know what sort of video games you'll be playing next year, stop by at the annual Game Design Initiative at Cornell Showcase from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday, May 19.
Cornell representatives attended in the first board meeting in Chile of the institutions planning to build the world's largest submillimeter wavelength telescope.
About 60 people rallied Dec. 3 to oppose the decision to have Africana Studies report to the College of Arts and Sciences, and letters of protest were delivered to the president and provost.