Susan Murphy, vice president for student and academic services, expressed the university's condolences on the deaths of Clayton DeFisher and Adam Frey during the university's winter break.
Mats Rooth, a Cornell linguist, will use software to study distinctions of prosody (rhythm, stress and intonation) in language by hunting for word patterns on the Internet. (Jan. 4, 2010)
Cornell astrophysicists and scientists played a vital role to validate the historic news of the first direct detection of gravitational waves – as predicted 100 years ago by Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
One hundred years ago Hu Shih, Class of 1914, donated a collection of 300 Chinese books to Cornell Library to benefit future Chinese students' study. (Dec. 15, 2011)
Cornell was among 15 institutions of higher education hosted by the White House June 10 as founding partners launching the Obama administration's Fair Chance Higher Education Pledge.
Jonathan Jansen, vice chancellor and rector of the University of the Free State in South Africa, will give three talks on higher education and South Africa while on campus Oct. 21-23.
Peter Gierasch, Cornell professor of astronomy, has been awarded astronomy’s prestigious Gerard P. Kuiper Prize by the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society on July 2.
Events this week include music and Warhol films, street dance at the Schwartz Center, Ensemble X, scholars discussing African migration to America, and a conference on the work of Dominick LaCapra. (Sept. 24, 2009)
Events on campus this week include contra dance and salsa, a talk by Roberto Sierra, violinist Leonidas Kavakos, Soup and Hope, special museum events, lectures on computers, the Internet and privacy. (Jan. 27, 2011)
To review current astrobiological knowledge and assess the prospects of life beyond Earth, the U.S. House Committee on Science, Space and Technology heard testimony Sept. 29 from Cornell’s Jonathan Lunine.