Events on campus this week include ticket sales for Margaret Atwood lecture, change in Bound for Glory, the Perkins Prize, a celebration of the baroque organ and a symposium on the Nano.
Cornell-led research yields a simulation system for predicting wear caused by friction between hard surfaces, which could help expand the use of computer modeling in tribology studies.
Events this week include plays about love and sexuality, films about math and physics, Concerto Competition winners in concert, and a Community-Supported Agriculture Fair.
Alexander Kazimirov, a senior research associate, died of a heart attack Aug. 12 while hiking Algonquin Mountain in the Adirondacks. He was 59. (Aug. 16, 2011)
Rachel Bean, associate professor of astronomy, is a co-recipient of the 2012 Gruber Cosmology Prize for her work on the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) team.
Every spring since 1989 the Cornell Tradition, an alumni-endowed student recognition program at Cornell University, has honored its own graduating seniors with recognition awards. The nine Tradition fellows who have been honored…
A conference in Hong Kong April 6-7 brought together 80 researchers and practitioners in Asia and the United States to share sustainable practices and solutions.
David J. Thouless, Ph.D. '58, and former postdoctoral researcher J. Michael Kosterlitz share the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries in topological phase transitions of matter.
Cornell has appointed three A.D. White Professors-at-Large in the humanities and physical science. Several other nonresident professors will visit the campus for public programs this fall. (Aug. 13, 2008)