This fall, the Roper Center, the world's largest public opinion archive, will honor the first political scientist to quantify the country's swings from conservatism to liberalism and back again.
The French Studies Program presents a bilingual conference, 'Historiography, Theory, Literature: Franco-American Exchanges,' Sept. 11-13, which highlights a partnership with the Ecole normale superieure (ENS). (Sept. 2, 2008)
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.
The Mind and Memory: Exploring Creativity in the Arts and Sciences course begins this month at Cornell and runs through April. This popular annual offering includes public lectures by distinguished members of the Cornell faculty and other creative people.
At BOOM 2011 March 9, dozens of students showed off their cutting-edge projects, from game software to robotics to autonomous aircraft and submarines. (March 14, 2011)
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.
From poetry to recent nonfiction to haiku; from medicine to music to dogs: Cornell President David Skorton and wife Robin Davisson shared selections from their favorite reads at Tompkins County Public Library, March 9. (March 10, 2008)
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.
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.