Entries from March 2008 ↓

The Engineering Library at Cornell University announces a new exhibit online and in the library – Sticker Shock 2: An Update This is an update of our earlier exhibit Sticker Shock (2002) Sticker Shock 2 includes updated prices and cost per use information. Both exhibits highlight the rising cost of library journal subscriptions to support [...]

Wednesday April 2, 4-5PM Blue Room on the first floor of the Engineering Library, Carpenter Hall Instructor: John Saylor, jms1@cornell.edu No registration is necessary This session will be of interest to all NIH (National Institutes of Health)- funded investigators who publish peer-reviewed literature and their grant managers. We will focus on the largest compliance issue [...]

Due to a change in construction activities that will generate heavy vibrations and loud noise, we will delay the opening of the library until noon, Friday, March 21, 2008.   Operating hours will be noon to 6:00 pm.  We will be monitoring emails,  contact us through the links at our web site. http://astech.library.cornell.edu/ast/phys or  contact one [...]

A webcam is now available for the new Physical Sciences Building being constructed in front of Clark Hall.  You can access the camera from here.

  Click on image for larger view. Follow the link below for the full article as it appeared in the Cornell Chronicle on March 7, 2008 http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/March08/aps.plaque.aj.html Additional link of interest: APS historic physics sites http://www.aps.org/programs/outreach/history/historicsites/

Cornell University News Service press release March 7, 2006 Nobel laureate Hans Bethe, the last of the giants of the golden age of 20th-century physics and the birth of modern atomic theory, and one of science’s most universally admired figures, died quietly yesterday evening at his home in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 98.”  ( entire press [...]