Gordon was the Walter R. Reed Professor of Electrical Engineering at Cornell in 1958 when he began designing the radio telescope to study the Earth's upper atmosphere and nearby space.
Events this week include Mayfest chamber music concerts, student films, a lecture on dinosaurs, a 'Cosmos' campus screening, a Science Cabaret on fertility and a wellness celebration.
Officials from the National Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, Japan's largest agricultural research institute, signed a memorandum of understanding Oct. 10 to foster research collaborations with Cornell University. (October 18, 2005)
Anne M. Fletcher, an award-winning health and medical journalist and Cornell alumna, will be speaking on campus in the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall, March 31.
Environmental artist Andy Goldsworthy will take part in a lecture-presentation titled "Documenting Andy Goldsworthy's Early Ephemeral Work: An Interview with Andy Goldsworthy," on Thursday, Nov. 4, at 4:30 p.m. in the Statler Auditorium.
Events on campus this week include a roundtable discussion of art repatriation, Indian cooking secrets at the Plantations, a classic American Cinema series, and Ke$ha concert ticket sales.
Edward Lawler, chair of the Strategic Planning Advisory Council, sits down with the Cornell Chronicle to talk about what the council is up to, and what its activities mean for Cornell.
Robert H. Foote, a professor emeritus of animal science whose pioneering research led to in vitro fertilization in agricultural livestock, died of lung failure in Ithaca Oct. 27. A memorial service will be held Nov. 9. (Nov. 3, 2008)
Researchers played a key role in helping Nassau and Suffolk counties on Long Island eliminate rabies in raccoons. Cornell's been managing rabies-control efforts in the two counties since 2006.
Clint Sidle of the Johnson School has published a new book 'This Hungry Spirit: Your Need for Basic Goodness,' which discusses the meaning we can derive from serving other people or greater causes.