How does a little girl growing up in the big city of San Francisco develop an abiding love and appreciation for nature and a passion for biology? Go fish. "My parents enjoyed fishing, and although my sister had no interest, I loved it," says Helene Dillard, director of Cornell Cooperative Extension.
As the spring semester begins, a team of engineering students and faculty has finished tweaking the master schedule, using lessons they learned last fall during their heroic effort to help Cornell safely hold in-person classes.
Paul L. McEuen, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics and director of the Kavli Institute at Cornell, has been named director of the Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics. (June 8, 2010)
Events on campus include TV stars Laverne Cox and Henry Winkler; electronic music with visual accompaniment at Cornell Cinema; and the Dyson Women in Leadership Summit.
Mother Mallard, the world's first portable synthesizer ensemble, celebrates the 30th anniversary of its electronic debut at Cornell on Oct. 3, at 8 p.m. in the Proscenium Theatre of the Center for Theatre Arts.
Researchers have patterned single atom-thick films of graphene and an insulator, boron nitride, without the use of a silicon substrate. (Aug. 29, 2012)
Institutions that benefit from the arXiv online repository of scientific papers will share in its governance and financial support under a new business model created by Cornell University Library. (Aug. 29, 2012)