A Cornell sociologist has transformed the small world concept of "six degrees of separation" into a scientific sampling method for finding and studying "hidden populations," from drug users to jazz musicians.
The next U.S. president will face the daunting task of re-establishing the nation's legitimacy on the global stage, said scholars in a reunion weekend roundtable. (June 7, 2008)
Cornell's Mann Library has added the first 20 volumes of The American Bee Journal, the first English-language journal devoted to the beekeeping field, to its online library of historical beekeeping materials.
When Corey Ryan Earle ’07 began teaching the Cornell history course The First American University, he had several goals, including giving students a deep understanding and shared appreciation for Cornell’s uniqueness and many pioneering “firsts.” But he didn’t anticipate that 10 years later, the course would create a multigenerational, international community, thousands strong, connected by their ties to the university.
Have you any photographs, tools, folk art, clothing or other objects concerning migrant farm laborers that you can lend to Cornell for a traveling exhibition? A team of museum professionals working with the Cornell Migrant Program is collecting materials for a 2,000-square-foot exhibition to inform general audiences about the historic and continuing use of migrant labor in the Northeast from a variety of perspectives.
About 50 students involved with the Cornell University Sustainable Design group are working to research, design and build an affordable sustainable model home in Nicaragua.
Carbon nanotubes could make ideal optical scattering wires -- tiny, mostly invisible antennae with the ability to control, absorb and emit certain colors of light at the nanoscale. (Dec. 20, 2010)
Complex computing problems as different as modeling Earth's climate system, predicting effects of regulatory change in the dairy industry or serving a semester's worth of lecture videos to student dormitories will operate on a scalable distributed network of powerful desktop computers, thanks in part to a $6 million grant from Intel Corp. to Cornell.
Maria Cristina Garcia and alumnae Renee Alexander '74, Mary Berens '74 and Kristen Rupert '74 were elected honorary members of Sphinx Head recently for service to Cornell. (May 4, 2010)