| News Date | News Details |
|---|---|
| October 9, 2008 |
Open Faculty Position Tenure-Track Faculty Position Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University |
| September 20, 2008 |
Professor Joe Burns Curates Spectacular Saturn Show at the Johnson Museum Spectacular Saturn (September 20-January 4): Guest curator Joe Burns, the Irving Porter Church Professor of Engineering and professor of astronomy at Cornell, will discuss the exhibition as part of the Museum’s “Art for Lunch” series on Thursday, September 25, at 12:00 noon. Burns will also give a public lecture at the Museum on Thursday, November 6 at 5:15 p.m. More Information Johnson Museum Current Exhibitions |
| July 30, 2008 |
Strogatz completes DVD course on chaos TAM Professor Steve Strogatz has completed an award winning 24 lecture DVD course on chaos theory for The Teaching Company. More information. "Chaos made easy", Wall Street Journal article, July 30, 2008. |
| June 10, 2008 |
Ruina and Pratap meet in Finland TAM PhD Rudra Pratap is now a professor at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore India. TAM Professor Andy Ruina lives in Ithaca. Together they are writing (still) an introductory textbook on Statics and Dynamics. Almost exactly half way between Bangalore and Ithaca on the great circle route is Helsinki Finland. So most summers the two of them spend a month or so working together in Finland. This summer a local paper thought that fact was interesting enough to write a story about. "Indien och USA möts på Åland", Story in Swedish with Picture, June 10, 2008. |
| May 8, 2008 |
Cassini images on display in New York City With Cornell's help, a glorious Saturn steps into the spotlight in New York City |
| May 7, 2008 |
Cornell Robot a Record Walker Ranger is small and light, but a marathoner among walking robots. The skinny robot from Cornell University wouldn't last long in a ring with Honda's heavyweight humanoid robot. Honda's robot, ASIMO, can run, shake hands and serve tea. Cornell's Ranger doesn't even have hands. But it can do something ASIMO can't: It can walk five miles without charging its batteries. |
| May 1, 2008 |
American Academy of Arts and Sciences names four Cornell academics as fellows This year's class of American Academy of Arts and Sciences fellows includes four Cornell faculty members in disciplines ranging from mathematics to psychology. |
| April 7, 2008 |
Cornell Robot sets a Record for Distance Walking We're not sure what brand of batteries it was using, but the Cornell Ranger robot just kept going and going April 3 when it set an unofficial world record by walking nonstop for 45 laps -- a little over 9 kilometers or 5.6 miles -- around the Barton Hall running track. |
| March 14, 2008 |
Genes on the Move Biology class is all about putting living things into categories, based on their differences. And creatures are different because they have different genes. But life wasn’t always like that. Radiolab on WNYC |
| January 25, 2008 |
Six Degrees Chances are you've heard of the 'small world' idea of six degrees of separation. But is it correct? The idea traces back to an experiment begun in 1967 by Stanley Milgram, in which he tried to trace how many acquaintances it would take to pass a letter between two randomly selected people. The result that entered the public consciousness was that in general it took six steps or fewer to bridge the gap between any two people. But is that result accurate? |
