Events this week include the Hasbrouck Yard Sale, songbird celebration, mineral identification, Mayfest and Commencement concerts, sketching wildflowers, and the play 'Lulu.' (May 20, 2010)
The Native American Students at Cornell organization will host its Third Annual Pow Wow and Smoke Dance Competition Sunday, April 7, in Barton Hall on the Cornell campus.
In the search for pulsars, a grand-scale sky survey at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico is now taking advantage of the combined processing power of personal computers around the world. (March 25, 2009)
From building robotic submarines to designing communication devices, engineering career possibilities were seemingly endless at a science workshop for Girl Scouts, hosted by a Cornell student group March 10. (March 13, 2007)
The Science Leadership Academy provides ideas, supplies, mentors and networking opportunities that the academy hopes the teachers will use to engage students in biology, chemistry and physics. (March 20, 2009)
"Before this course I didn't know a thing about welding. Now I've learned two different types of welding," said exuberant architecture student Rebecca Southworth as she sawed, sparks flying, at a steel angle iron in the Sculpture…
While best known for his role in founding the university that bears his name, Ezra Cornell exemplifies the ingenuity and invention that was necessary to move the United States from an agrarian to an industrial base. During his lifetime, Cornell worked as a carpenter, mechanic, farmer, salesman, inventor, entrepreneur, politician and philanthropist.
The Cornell United Way Campaign not only exceeded its goal of $660,000, but surpassed the $700,000 mark in pledges. The 2006 campaign officially closes March 31. (March 7, 2007)
Lara Estroff, Daniel Cosley and Maxim Perelstein have received 2009 Early Career Development Awards from the National Science Foundation. (March 16, 2009)
Cornell alumnus Dan Maas '01, whose realistic Mars rover mission animations have been shown on television news programs the world over, received an Emmy Award nomination for his animation featured in the PBS Nova documentary 'Mars Dead or Alive.'