Cheers of encouragement, heartfelt love and exuberance punctuated each award presented at the annual Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives’ Honors ceremony May 4, at the Statler Hotel ballroom.
Bill Nye '77, known to a generation as "The Science Guy," celebrated his 40th class reunion by giving a talk in Bailey Hall titled, "Everything All At Once: How Cornellians Will Save The World."
Math professor Steven Strogatz and his team secures a $2.5 million grant from National Science Foundation to help students learn how to do research, then communicate their results more clearly.
Sifting through the center of the Milky Way galaxy, astronomers have made the first direct observations – using an infrared telescope aboard a modified Boeing 747 – of cosmic building-block dust that survived an ancient supernova.
The Museum of the Earth has a fossil preparation lab, with a window so visitor can watch the paleontologists - including several Cornell students. (Sept. 23, 2011)
International Criminal Court President Sang-Hyun Song spoke on campus Oct. 9 on the need to make genocide, use of child soldiers, and human rights violations unacceptable.
Faculty and visiting scholars will consider the postmodern in the arts and literature and in related scholarship in the disciplines at the Society for the Humanities' conference, April 13-14. (April 11, 2007)
In a recent lecture, Brett de Bary cited texts and translations of Japanese author Tawada Yoko, whose works deal with the arbitrary nature of cultural boundaries in differentiating language and words. (March 4, 2010)
A state of electronic matter first predicted by theorists in 1964 has finally been discovered by Cornell physicists and may provide key insights into the workings of high-temperature superconductors.