The Light in Winter Festival of Science and the Arts is Jan. 23-25 on campus and other venues in Ithaca. The festival showcases cutting-edge ideas through theater, lectures, music and multimedia events.
Astronomy professor Jonathan Lunine testified before a House subcommittee March 3 to explain rationale for scientific, seafaring journeys to Jupiter's and Saturn's moons.
Conservative political commentator S.E. Cupp '00 told her audience her tips on how to become a political pundit, July 27 as part of the summer lecture series. (Aug. 1, 2011)
Events on campus include free summer concerts, new films from the United States and Italy, a history-filled tour of Cornell Plantations, and an international keyboard competition. (Aug. 1, 2011)
A commitment to establish a $5 million endowment for the deanship of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning has been made by Cornell trustee Ira Drukier '66, M.Eng. '67, and his wife, Gale. (Oct. 19, 2007)
In the shadow of Saturn’s hulking planetary mass, astronomers can confirm that Titan’s liquid methane seas seem a bit choppy, as they say that an observed transient feature seem to be surface waves.
Physics professor Erich Mueller and grad student Shovan Dutta realize long-theorized quantum state in an array of solitons, which could pave the way for future study into the creation of such states.
A National Science Foundation grant to the Department of Classics will support dendrochronology research in the Near East to determine a precise radiocarbon timeline for Biblical archaeology. (Sept. 27, 2012)