Only days after the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami hit Asian coastlines, Cornell Professor Philip Liu led a delegation of American scientists from the National Science Foundation's Tsunami Research Group and the U.S. Geological Survey into wave-ravaged Sri Lanka. He is due back in Ithaca today (Jan. 20) to give a firsthand report on the damage and destruction.
Susan A. Henry, the Ronald P. Lynch Dean of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell, launched a monthlong trip in Asia by signing a memorandum of understanding with Dr. S.A. Patil, vice chancellor of the University of Agricultural Sciences in Dharwad, India, Jan. 11.
The first image of the surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan, taken by the Huygens space probe was shown to the world at 2:55 p.m. Jan. 14, courtesy of NASA-TV. Members of the campus community and the general public crowded into the Space Sciences Building to share the rare experience of seeing an alien world for the first time.
