Research co-authored by assistant professor of physics Brad Ramshaw sheds new light onto the unusual properties of the high-temperature superconductor strontium lanthanum copper oxide.
Events this week include a regional student film festival at the Schwartz Center, Wu Man and The Shanghai Quartet in Bailey Hall, and 'The Messenger' and 'A Space Program' at Cornell Cinema.
To celebrate New York’s suffrage centennial, rare photographs, letters, programs and other memorabilia documenting the movement will be on display beginning Nov. 3.
The 108th annual Dragon Day parade across campus begins at 1 p.m. Friday, March 13. This year, the burning of the dragon will follow new environmental regulations.
Cornell horticulture students created an indoors grass art installation of a larger-than-life portrait of Mohandas ('Mahatma') Gandhi in the Mann Library lobby during finals week. (Dec. 23, 2008)
The Spitzer Space Telescope – with its Cornell-developed infrared spectrograph instrument – has been peering through murky cosmic dust to study the distant heavens. The mission ends Jan. 30.
Political scientist Jamila Michener expands the "broken windows theory" - used by social scientists to explain bad behavior in bad neighborhoods: criminals feel comfortable there - to show how some people's discomfort with bad neighborhoods inspires good behavior.
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Director Frank Robinson, dressed as Santa Claus, reads 'T'was the Night Before Christmas' to children at the museum's holiday celebration Dec. 7. (Dec. 11, 2008)