The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), one of the world's leading centers for X-ray research in biology and materials science, is building a major addition that will provide a quantum leap in its capabilities.
Frank H.T. Rhodes, professor of geological sciences and president emeritus at Cornell University, has been elected president of the American Philosophical Society (APS) for a three-year term.
When the Nazis seized power in Germany in 1933, some 25,000 German Jews fled to France. Now a new book by a Cornell history professor offers the first major appraisal of French responses to the Jewish refugee crisis in the 1930s.
Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit has been briefing drivers, employees and outlets for a systemwide fare change that will go into effect Monday, June 7.
There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but now there is free, high-quality information for investors, thanks to the savvy MBA students in accounting Associate Professor Rob Bloomfield's equity research course at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.
Cornell will honor 35 secondary school teachers, some from as far away as Russia, Singapore and India, May 26. The teachers were selected by Cornell's Merrill Presidential Scholars program.
Cornell University Library will announce the acquisition of a rare set of William Wordsworth's 'Poetical Works' (1827), annotated with the poet's largely unpublished handwritten revisions, during a public reception.
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered an enormous cyclonic storm system raging in the northern polar regions of the planet Mars. Nearly four times the size of the state of Texas, the storm is composed of water-ice clouds like storm systems on Earth, rather than dust typically found in Martian storms.
In its second year of participation in the Morris K. Udall Scholarship competition, Cornell University has produced three undergraduate winners of the prestigious awards for the 1999-2000 academic year.
Bruce Lewenstein, associate professor of science communication at Cornell University, has been named director of what has been known since 1988 as the New York State Pew Program in Undergraduate Science Education.
