Events on campus this week include jazz and classical music, book talks with Victor Nee and Frank H.T. Rhodes, and opening events in the Creative Writing Reading Series and Schwartz Center season. (Sept. 13, 2012)
Research by a group led by chemistry professor Peng Chen reveals 'talk' between nanoscale catalysts, and offers a new conceptual framework that could lead to better design of synthetic nanocatalysts.
Events on campus include Christmas Vespers in Sage Chapel, a sale of outdoor gear and clothing, an end-of-semester salsa party at the Big Red Barn, and "Back to the Future" film screenings.
Éva Tardos, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Computer Science, has been named the new editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Events this week include a concert in tribute to Cornell composer Robert Palmer; Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or winners at Cornell Cinema; and a multimedia performance with Catherine Galasso '06.
Upcoming workshops from the Cornell Cooperative Extension of Tompkins County discuss cover crops, provide a kitchen garden tour and give guidance to parents who want to help their children adjust to the parents’ separation or divorce.
Assaf Razin, the Friedman Professor of International Economics, released two new books in November. One is on global financial crises, the other compares U.S. and EU welfare policies.
Queers for Economic Justice, founded in 2002, was among the first LGBTQ groups to advocate for equality by fighting systems that create poverty. Now Cornell University Library is preserving and organizing the group's records.
Cornell climate scientists and their colleagues have developed a “robust null hypothesis” to assess the odds of a megadrought – one that lasts more than 30 years – occurring in the western and southwestern United States.
The State of Indonesian Studies Conference on campus, April 28-29, brought scholars together to ponder the status and future of scholarships on Indonesia. (May 4, 2011)