A new Cornell University Library website and other resources are available to faculty members to comply with new federal laws requires that all federally supported research be publicly available.
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.
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.
At the Central New York THAT (The Humanities and Technology) Camp in Olin Library, there were no official presenters, while participants voted on workshop topics and met in collaborative sessions.
A collaborative workshop drawing from the disciplines of art, science, and computing will be held April 20 and 21 to launch Cornell Library's sponsorship of the Internet art journal Ctheory Multimedia , a semi-annual collection of electronic art and theory to be published this spring.
Cornell Library is asking other research institutions to contribute to the support of the online arXiv repository of science and mathematics preprints. (Jan. 25, 2010)
The 56th Annual Service Recognition Dinner was held March 31 to recognize 268 long-serving staff members who have worked at Cornell for 25 or more years and were celebrating a fifth-year milestone. (April 7, 2011)
Computer science professor Jon Kleinberg will receive the 2013 ACM SIGKDD Innovation Award, considered the highest for technical excellence in knowledge discovery and data mining, from the Association for Computing Machinery.
Joseph Veverka, Cornell's James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences, has received the Whipple Award for his 'outstanding contribution to the field of planetary science.' (Jan. 31, 2012)