A Cornell senior and researchers have narrowed theories on why the hydrocarbon dunes – think plastic – on Titan are oriented in an unexpected direction, a solar system eccentricity that has puzzled space scientists.
Stephen Cole, professor of theater for almost 40 years at Cornell, will retire this year, leaving a legacy on campus and in the Ithaca theater scene. (Feb. 21, 2008)
Art critic and historian Donald Kuspit will give a free and public lecture at Cornell on Tuesday, April 23, titled "Dialectics of Decadence: The Weight of History on Contemporary Art" at 5:15 p.m. in Room 115 of Tjaden Hall.
English faculty authors paid sincere tribute, with insight and analysis, to fellow Cornell writers E.B. White '21, Phyllis Janowitz and James McConkey, Sept. 16 in Goldwin Smith Hall.
Cornell scientists used a very tiny, extremely bright X-ray beam to make high-speed movies of how spreadable organic molecules formed crystal lattices at the nanoscale.
Whether campus finances would become more or less centralized was the main point of debate Feb. 5 at a brown-bag lunch on the proposed budget model, which will take effect in July 2012.
A new paper co-authored by Tasha Lewis, Ph.D ’09, assistant professor of fiber science and apparel design, looks at a music genre's influence on men's fashion.
Thomas Pepinsky, assistant professor of government, won the American Political Science Association's 2010 Franklin L. Burdette/Pi Sigma Alpha Award. (Aug. 6, 2010)
Cornell University experts predict that the 104th beast created for the annual Dragon Day parade on campus will emerge from its lair Friday, March 18, and the university has issued the following traffic warning and road-closure alert: Vehicular access to central campus will be restricted from 12:30 p.m. to approximately 3:30 p.m. Buses could be rerouted or delayed when the dragon begins its journey across campus from Rand Hall at approximately 1 p.m. The beast will travel east on University Avenue, then south on East Avenue, then west on Campus Road. It will lumber through Ho Plaza and enter the Arts Quad, between Uris and Olin libraries, before proceeding to the south side of Sibley Hall.
A decade after its creation, the Department of Biomedical Engineering has received a $50 million gift that will expand and elevate it as the Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering.