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 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)
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)
Things to do include a premier of 'Anita O'Day: The Life of a Jazz Singer' in Willard Straight Theatre and a hands-on Twitter workshop. (June 15, 2009)
Daniel C. Ralph, the Horace White Professor of Physics, has been named the L.B. Knight Director of the Cornell NanoScale Science and Technology Facility starting July 1. (May 6, 2010)
Presented by the American Chemical Society, the 2013 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award recognizes and encourages excellence in organic chemistry. (Aug. 21, 2012)
'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)
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.
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.