Astronomer Martha Haynes took an alumni audience on a trip through the universe at the Reunion 2013 lecture, "Our Cosmic History and a New View of our Origins" in Lewis Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall June 7.
As part of inauguration events, President Elizabeth Garrett moderated a faculty panel on the challenges inequality poses for democratic institutions Sept. 18 in Bailey Hall.
The Student Assembly on Dec. 4 cut Cornell Cinema's student activity fee funding by $1 per student per year, overturning a previous decision to cut cinema funding by $2.40. (Dec. 9, 2009)
Lord Martin Rees, who has probed deep into the cosmos, studied gamma-ray bursts and galactic formation, spoke May 8 at Cornell on issues closer to home: the preservation of our “pale blue dot.”
Hand Buzz Spector a book, and there's a good chance he'll destroy it. Read a profile of the Cornell art professor and art department chair, who has meticulously torn the pages of hundreds of books to create cascading images within their bindings.
Fourteen months after Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul came to announce funding for CHESS-U, the upgrade is officially complete as she returns for a ceremony marking the end of the project.
The polymer, called polypropylene carbonate, is made using a class of catalysts that was invented in the lab of Geoffrey Coates, and further developed by the Cornell spinoff company Novomer.
Organic material added by plant roots and microbes provide nutritious candy for the soil. Literally. Cellular sugar boosts water and nutrient retention, says new Cornell research.