September 2012
1 post
Live With Sam Green | The Cornell Daily Sun →
but I’m not sure if students there realize what a fantastic institution and resource Cornell Cinema is. Filmmakers from all over the world know Cornell Cinema and admire the programming there. Years ago, there were organizations like Cornell Cinema at universities all over the country, and over time, they’ve gone away, because of VCRs and DVDs and now the Internet. The idea is like, “You can see...
July 2012
6 posts
“Columbia University to Create Data Sciences Institute in NYC By Henry Goldman -...”
– Columbia University to Create Data Sciences Institute in NYC - Bloomberg
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“Cornell’s computer-science department is one of the absolute top in the...”
– Why I Moved: Computer Scientist Leaves UCLA for the Fledgling CornellNYC Tech - People - The Chronicle of Higher Education
“Stewards are now trekking the trails in the beautiful but treacherous gorges on...”
– Cornell has safety stewards patrolling Ithaca gorge trails : News : CNYcentral.com
“From a greenhouse point of view, it would be better to replace coal electrical...”
– Cornell Chronicle: Natural gas as transition fuel
“But Cornell University scientists Ian Low, Joseph Lykken and Gabe Shaughnessy,...”
– Signal in LHC may not be standard model Higgs boson after all
June 2012
2 posts
“Both schools have proud college hockey traditions with significant ties to each...”
– Cornell Chronicle: Men’s hockey vs. Michigan Nov. 24 in NYC
Can colleges make equity investments in their... →
Investors could finance students’ education with equity, not debt. In exchange, investors would receive a fraction of students’ future income.
May 2012
6 posts
How can a ranking based on a poll of undergraduate... →
Nate Schorr ‘12 talks The Muse.
“Travel whenever you can. Read wherever you go. Think for yourself always. Do not...”
– NYC.gov
Google will also get first dibs on any technology... →
Google will get some nice PR—see the article above—for leasing the space for free and, as Ralph Henson points out on Twitter, it will get a nice tax write-off for the sub-lease as well.
“The new building also shouldn’t be distant or aloof. The word isle gives us...”
– Cornell’s High-Stakes Commission in Roosevelt Island — New York Magazine
Das prank | The Essentials →
Springtime in Ithaca
April 2012
2 posts
“The more aggressive they were on the schedule and the more aggressive they were...”
– Is Stanford Too Close to Silicon Valley? : The New Yorker
