Students, Ithacans and city officials came together at a Town Hall meeting Nov. 15 to discuss the future of Cornell's housing master plan with respect to on-campus housing and housing in Collegetown.
Professors Sheila Hemami, Karl Niklas and David Lipsky have been named Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellows for outstanding teaching and mentoring of Cornell undergraduates.
With great expectations Cornell will officially enter "the Skorton era" on Sept. 7. In a lively and colorful ceremony on the Arts Quad, David J. Skorton will be inaugurated as Cornell's 12th president.
The historic day's events…
On the fifth anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Kiyoshi Kurokawa, the accident’s chief investigator, cited some of the catastrophe's causes: the government's lack of transparency and 'groupthink.'
Researchers at Cornell and Michigan have joined teams in France to find out if native speakers of American English and French use the same brain structures to understand a story when it is read to them in their own language.
Open to all, program houses can enhance students' academic learning, offer unique resources, activities and community service opportunities, and provide a sense of belonging within the giant Cornell community. (May 2, 2007)
Using data from millions of taxi trips, a group that included math professor Steven Strogatz applies a natural rescaling law to predict the ride-sharing potential for four major cities.
Associate Professor of Philosophy Karen Bennett led listeners through the 'tricky' question of 'What's It All About?' while exploring how philosophers tackle the meaning of life, March 30 in New York. (April 6, 2011)
Cindy Hsin-Liu Kao, assistant professor in the College of Human Ecology, uses knitting and weaving techniques to make on-skin devices that express the wearer’s personality.