An interdisciplinary symposium, 'Landscapes: Sublime/Popular/Ruined/Surreal,' is being held on the Cornell University campus Friday, Sept. 28, and Saturday, Sept. 29.
Physics graduate students have grand ideas for what they might find once their detector, the Compact Muon Solenoid at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), goes back online later this year.
Restaurateur Dan Barber, who writes on food and agricultural policy and promotes sustainable practices to achieve the best taste in farm and garden-grown foods, will speak in Call Auditorium. (March 17, 2011)
Rachel Bean, assistant professor of astronomy, has received a 2010 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for her work in cosmology and theoretical astrophysics. (Nov. 10, 2010)
Economist Christopher Barrett will lead the Charter Day panel, "Cornell and Global Poverty Reduction: Philanthropy, Policy and Scholarship," will be held Saturday, April 25.
Faculty considered the future of research libraries in a Feb. 14 forum. Cornell's librarian noted that 60 percent of the library's collections budget goes to licensing electronic content.