Cornell's Society for the Humanities will focus on 'Culture and Conflict' during 2005-06, with visiting and Cornell faculty offering seminars directly related to the theme.
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found a bright vein of a mineral deposited by water. Analysis of the vein will help researchers better understand the history of wet environments on Mars. (Dec. 9, 2011)
Two prominent physicists, Cornell University alumni Helen T. Edwards and her husband, Donald A. Edwards, have endowed a chair in accelerator physics at Cornell.
From Oct. 13 to Nov. 17, six committed middle and high school students have been commuting as long as 90 minutes to attend the Math Explorer's Club on campus to explore mathematical concepts and problem-solving strategies.
David Lifka, director of the Cornell Center for Advanced Computing, has taken on an additional role to help expand information technology support for researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College. (Oct. 28, 2010)
The newly elected trustees are Gary S. Davis '76; Peggy J. Koenig '78; Lowell C. McAdam '76; William H. McAleer '73, MBA '75; Barbara G. Novick '82; and Meredith A. Rosenberg '92. (May 30, 2012)
A Cornell researcher has uncovered an oddity in the early cosmos: A distant galaxy, born just after the Big Bang, is starting to furiously churn out stars at peak capacity – despite its young age.