John Silcox, the David E. Burr Professor of Engineering and director of the Materials Science Center at Cornell, has won the 1996 Distinguished Scientist Award in the Physical Sciences from the Microscopy Society of America.
Chaos. To engineers, it has meant that their systems were at risk, and they did their best to engineer chaos out of them. “It used to be a nuisance. Engineers would avoid it at all costs,” said Steven H. Strogatz, Cornell associate professor of theoretical and applied mechanics.
Cornell scientists report the accurate characterization of a sample representing 1 percent of the protein in a single red blood cell using electrospray mass spectrometry – a feat that opens the door to a wide area of basic medical exploration.
One universal principle – opposites attract – accounts for homosexuality as well as heterosexuality, according to a Cornell University psychologist who proposes a sweeping new theory of how sexual orientation develops.
NSF Director Neal Lane, top researchers in the field will give talks Neal Lane, director of the National Science Foundation and a physicist by training, will be among the key speakers at the 50th anniversary celebration of Cornell University’s School of Applied and Engineering Physics on Sept. 20 and 21.
Most African nations remain entrenched in the cultural, legal and other practices of their former British, French or Portuguese colonizers, a generation or more after achieving independence, according to Joan Mulondo, program coordinator of the Institute for African Development at Cornell.
On Sept. 6 and 7, anthropologists, historians, sociologists and even an exiled Peruvian general will join forces on the Cornell campus to consider the question: How is the military being redefined in different corners of the globe as the 20th century draws to a close?
Four films about Jimmy Hoffa, the former president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters whose 1975 disappearance is still unsolved, are included in a guide, published by Cornell University Press, to the 150 most noteworthy and significant films and documentaries about labor.
Hyundai has dispatched more than two dozen of its “superstar” executives to the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell for an eight-month stay to learn business management skills and gain a global perspective on manufacturing. The participants, who range in age from 37 to 50, are being groomed as the next generation of senior and top-level managers.
Move over “Independence Day,” step aside Martian microfossils. The real-life alien invasion has commenced: the viburnum leaf beetle – a pest that will chew and decimate viburnum trees and shrubs – has been detected in several New York counties, a Cornell University expert warns.
What is believed to be the first course on vegetarianism at a mainstream university. The course, Vegetarian Nutrition (NS 300), will be taught by T. Colin Campbell, professor of nutritional biochemistry at Cornell and the director of the Cornell-China-Oxford Project on Nutrition, Health and Environment, the most comprehensive project on diet and disease ever conducted.
