Michael Willis, Cornell earth and atmospheric sciences research associate, has been named to the ArcticDEM scientific team that will – for the first time – create high-resolution topographical Arctic maps.
Contemplating concepts like sustenance grown nearby and global dietary choices, students from the Ethics of Eating course turned local food into a feast for food columnist Mark Bittman.
Leading scholars and theorists gathered to discuss the current state of literary theory at a recent conference hosted by the Department of English. (March 16, 2010)
To find the detailed building blocks of life in the cosmos, a new instrument will be placed on NASA’s SOFIA – the airliner-based Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy - by Professor Gordon Stacey.
The School of Criticism and Theory immerses participants in a broad range of topics in the humanities and social sciences, from poetry, art and literary history to political science and cultural movements. (July 14, 2009)
Professor Emeritus Robert Hughes, Ph.D. '52, who taught chemistry at Cornell from 1964 to 1980 and served as assistant director of the National Science Foundation, died in Virginia April 2. He was 92.
Social science departments are too diffuse for the university to excel in the discipline and should strategically merges some units, according to task force findings discussed Dec. 1.
Two professors, Steven Squyres and Mary Beth Norton, are planning a course on exploration that combines their backgrounds and their passions. (March 2, 2010)