Events at Cornell this week include a lecture by writer Joyce Carol Oates, Latin music on the Arts Quad, stargazing, films and an engineering symposium. (July 31, 2009)
Government professor Peter Katzenstein warned against thinking that civilizations around the world are homogenous, when they are indeed pluralistic with 'shifting balances of practices.' (Feb. 23, 2011)
A decade ago, when some of Wolfgang Sachse's graduate students began to dance tango, they invited him to watch. He brought his camera. "I was intrigued by what I saw: the connection between two persons moving beautifully through…
Shattering a cornerstone concept in linguistics, an analysis of more than two-thirds of the world’s languages shows humans tend to make the same sounds for common objects and ideas, no matter what language they’re speaking.
Sean Patev, a graduate student in the field of plant pathology, is bringing his 3-D printer to Cornell University library events this fall as the library investigates installing "maker spaces" in several campus locations.
'Frontiers in the Life Sciences - a Symposium Celebrating Excellence' will bring eight elite female life scientists to campus for lectures, mentoring, networking and discussions April 2-3. (March 15, 2012)
Kwame Amponsah is one of several alumni entrepreneurs to establish businesses in Ithaca. He founded Xallent, a semiconductor device and test equipment manufacturing startup, while doing postdoctoral research at Cornell in 2013.
Events on campus this week include Reunion lectures and tours, Steven Strogatz lecture and preferred vendor show later in the week. A summer preview is also provided. (June 10, 2010)
Eugene Dynkin recorded his talks with mathematicians around the world for more than 50 years. The library has digitized, organized and curated the information on a new website. (Nov. 8, 2011)
Cornell researchers have developed an efficient method for the assembly of biologically compatible, antibacterial synthetic macromolecules, the composition of which can be precisely adjusted.