The clash of two armies at a place that one side called Bull Run and the other Manassas was supposed to end a war before it began. But when the battle was over, 900 soldiers lay dead on the fields of Virginia, and a man on a mission of mercy from Ithaca, who four years later would found a great university, was running for his life.
The Cornell Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca on March 26 and 27. The board will meet from 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., and again from 2 to 4 p.m. on March 27, in the Trustee Meeting Room of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.
Melissa Hines is a researcher in search of perfection. Her goal is a mirror surface on which not even a single atom is protruding above the surface. "There is no theoretical reason why you can't make things that are perfect," says Hines, an assistant professor of chemistry.
A unique collection of correspondence between Indonesian adolescents and the psychology professor who has become Southeast Asia's own "Dr. Ruth" is now available at the Cornell University Library.
A new agreement extends some protection to astronomers who use the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico and have been concerned about potential interference from the commercial satellite system IRIDIUM.
If you shuffled off to Buffalo, N.Y., in February, you need not have shoveled much snow. Not since 1890 has Buffalo survived winter so easily, with only 1.8 inches of snow during the month, breaking the 108-year-old record by 0.4 of an inch.
It makes wine smell like a barn, wet leather, horse sweat, or burned beans. It is called "brett," and it produces an often-pungent aroma in wine. Scientists are starting to unravel the chemical mysteries that produce the curious aroma found in fermented beverages like wine and beer
Members of the President's Council of Cornell Women (PCCW) will focus on "Cornell Today: Issues and Actions" at the alumnae group's annual spring meeting on the Cornell campus March 27 to 29.
Andrew S. Schultz, Jr., who was Cornell's fifth dean of the College of Engineering between 1963 and 1972, died March 13 at his home in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
Two groups of researchers collaborating on a map of the canine genome have discovered the probable genetic correlation between the most widespread cause of inherited blindness in dogs and a similar human disease.
A collection of letters and other documents showing how a handful of American families made history -- and launched a national movement -- by publicly supporting their gay and lesbian children is now available at Cornell University Library's Human Sexuality Collection.
Juliet Mitchell, a psychoanalyst, feminist theorist and member of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge University, will visit Cornell on March 23 to 31 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.
