http://hdl.handle.net/1813/3614 2013-05-25T15:41:26Z 2013-05-25T15:41:26Z Feldshuh, David Booth, Dan Rusten, Jeffrey http://hdl.handle.net/1813/30557 2012-12-04T06:03:21Z 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Antigone (script, video segments and commentary) Authors: Feldshuh, David; Booth, Dan; Rusten, Jeffrey Abstract: In Fall 2003, Sophocles' Antigone was a prominent topic on the Cornell campus. Chosen for the 2003 New Student Reading Project, it was assigned reading for all incoming students over the summer. Upon their arrival on campus, it formed the basis for a shared academic experience consisting of small and large group discussions. Antigone was also the opening play in the 2003-2004 season of the Cornell Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. David Feldshuh directed his own adaptation of the play, of which two video clips are available In addition, the entire script can be downloaded for reading on your In Fall 2003, Sophocles' Antigone was a prominent topic on the Cornell campus. Chosen for the 2003 New Student Reading Project, it was assigned reading for all incoming students over the summer. Upon their arrival on campus, it formed the basis for a shared academic experience consisting of small and large group discussions. Antigone was also the opening play in the 2003-2004 season of the Cornell Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. David Feldshuh directed his own adaptation of the play, of which two video clips are available in the sidebar to the left. In addition, the entire script and news articles and commentaries are available.

2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Love, Harry Houser Reisner, John Henry http://hdl.handle.net/1813/29080 2012-06-19T05:01:42Z 2012-06-15T00:00:00Z

Title: The Cornell-Nanking Story Authors: Love, Harry Houser; Reisner, John Henry Abstract: The Cornell-Nanking Story describes Cornell’s first technical cooperation program of international outreach–the pioneering effort whose legacy continues robustly today. This report, first released in 1963 by Royse P. Murphy, describes the very successful project in crop improvement that had been led by Harry Houser Love and John Henry Reisner in the 1920s. The present-day Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics of the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is one of the premier departments of Cornell University and continues this pioneering spirit as a lead participant in the New Life Sciences effort by Cornell University. The Cooperative Crop Improvement Program between Cornell University, through the Department of Plant Breeding of the New York State College of Agriculture, and the University of Nanking, through its College of Agriculture and Forestry – with financial support from the International Education Board – had its origin in a letter to Professor H. H. Love at Cornell from Dean John H. Reisner in Nanking under the date of February 4, 1924. The purpose of the program was two-fold, to organize and conduct a comprehensive crop improvement program, involving the principal food crops of the famine areas of central and northern China, (cotton was included later) and of equal importance, to train men in the principles, methods, application and organization of crop improvement. Dr. T. H. Shen characterized the outcomes: “The most significant results of the Nanking-Cornell-International Education Board Program for Crop Improvement in China were: (1) training a group of Chinese plant breeders for carrying on a national program of crop improvement; (2) developing better varieties of wheat, barley, rice, kaoliang, millet and soybeans showing increased yields from 10 to 20 percent more than the native varieties; (3) stimulating the Chinese government to establish the National Agricultural Research Bureau of the Ministry of Industry in 1931 which made great improvements in agricultural production in China up to 1949 through scientific research and agricultural extension services. Dr. H. H. Love, of Cornell, served as Advisor to the Bureau in 1931-1934.”

2012-06-15T00:00:00Z Rand, Richard H. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/28989 2012-05-31T05:01:53Z 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Lecture Notes on Nonlinear Vibrations Authors: Rand, Richard H. Abstract: This edition of Professor Rand's Lecture Notes on Nonlinear Vibrations extends the previous version (http://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/79 ) by including two new Chapters, respectively on Differential-Delay Equations, and on Differential Equations with Fractional Derivatives, as well as an Appendix to Chapter 6 including power series expansions for transition curves in Mathieu's equation. Description: A print on demand of these books and articles can be obtained from Cornell Business Services (CBS) Digital Services by sending e-mail to digital@cornell.edu or calling 607.255.2524. In the body of the message include the identifier.uri for the book or article, and ask to be contacted regarding payment.

2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Block, H.D. Cranch, E.T. Hilton, P.J. Walker, R.J. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/28693 2012-04-22T21:00:06Z 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS Authors: Block, H.D.; Cranch, E.T.; Hilton, P.J.; Walker, R.J. Abstract: "Engineering Mathematics" by H.D. Block, E.T. Cranch, P.J. Hilton and R.J. Walker was a two volume work that was written, published and first used as a text at Cornell University in 1964. The project was a cooperative effort between the Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Department in the College of Engineering and the Mathematics Department in the College of Arts and Sciences. The work was very novel at the time, although many of its innovations have become commonplace nowadays. In particular, the work involved the unusual step of interweaving linear algebra and differential equations (both ordinary and partial). Also unusual was the inclusion of engineering applications and computer simulations. Related topics such as vector field theory, complex numbers and infinite series were also treated. The book continued to be used as the text for a year-long sequence of sophomore engineering mathematics, Math 293-294, well into the 1970's. Eventually other authors produced books which combined linear algebra and differential equations, and "Engineering Mathematics" by Block et al. ceased to be used as a text at Cornell. Description: The preparation of this material has been partially supported by Grant NSF-GE2564 made to Cornell University by the National Science Foundation

1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Niklas, Karl J. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/28577 2012-02-22T15:11:05Z 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Plant biomechanics : an engineering approach to plant form and function Authors: Niklas, Karl J. Abstract: The aim of this book is to explore how plants function, grow, reproduce, and evolve within the limits set by their physical environment. It was written in the firm belief that organisms cannot violate the laws of physics and chemistry and that knowing how these laws operate and confine the organic expression of size, form, and structure is essential to understanding biology. This perspective is shared by a number of disciplines physiology and ecology to name just two and traces its conceptual roots to the principal concerns of early comparative morphologists and anatomists. It differs only slightly from the bulk of biology by its emphasis on using the principles of physics and engineering to answer fundamental questions about the relation between form and function, but it clearly defines the intellectual scope of what has become known as biomechanics a discipline that operates at the interface between engineering and biology. Description: xiii, 607 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.

1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Gavin, Thomas A. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/28280 2012-09-28T05:05:11Z 2011-12-08T00:00:00Z

Title: My Life as a Field Biologist: from Deer to Digital Book in 40 Short Years Authors: Gavin, Thomas A. Abstract: Tom Gavin’s CAPE Lecture on December 8, 2011 provided a panoramic reprise of his research career as a Field Biologist by way of four major projects, all using marked individuals to illuminate larger aspects of animal behavior and ecology. He explored 1) the naturally skewed mortality pattern in an isolated, nonhunted population of Columbian white-tailed deer, 2) the adult Bobolink’s propensity to return to its previously used nesting site despite its annual migratory trip of thousands of miles , 3) how understory forest birds in Costa Rica live in a landscape that has been fragmented by humans, and 4) and the demise and conservation of the Idaho Ground Squirrel. Description: A Public Lecture sponsored by the Cornell Association of Professors Emeriti on December 8, 2011. The Lecture was introduced by Milo Richmond. Videographer and producer: J. Robert Cooke. Length of Video: 90 min.

2011-12-08T00:00:00Z Brown, Susan K. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/24423 2012-09-28T05:02:51Z 2011-10-13T00:00:00Z

Title: Cornell Apple Breeding: Taste the Apples of the Future Authors: Brown, Susan K. Abstract: Susan K. Brown, the Herman M. Cohn Professor of Horticulture and Associate Chair for the merged CALS Horticulture Departments in Ithaca and Geneva presents an entertaining public lecture in Jordan Hall, “Cornell Apple Breeding: Taste the Apples of the Future.” Her lecture of October 13, 2011 was sponsored by the Cornell Association of Professors Emeriti. From her perspective as Director of the Fruit and Vegetable Genomics Initiative and as head of the apple breeding program, she presented a broad view of the process of creating new apple varieties from its history, the technical aspects to marketing issues to stimulate economic development and consumer satisfaction. The session ended with a sampling of two new apple varieties that are being commercialized in partnership with the NY apple industry. Description: This lecture is part of a series sponsored by The Cornell Association of Professors Emeriti and was presented at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station on the Geneva campus on 13 October 2011.. Videographer and producer: J. Robert Cooke. Length of Video: 48 min.

2011-10-13T00:00:00Z Christy, Ralph http://hdl.handle.net/1813/23625 2012-09-28T05:05:09Z 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Title: Small is Still Beautiful: Establishing a Micro-economic Agenda for Economic Growth and Development in sub-Saharan Africa: a lecture by Ralph Christy Authors: Christy, Ralph Abstract: Professor Ralph D. Christy is Director of Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development and Professor of Emerging Markets within the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University, where he conducts food marketing research and educational programs on the economic performance of markets and distribution systems in developing countries. In this lecture for the Cornell Association of Professors Emeriti on September 15, 2011 he describes the work he is doing to develop markets for rural economies in Africa, how he is engaging Cornell students in that process worldwide and presents a compelling argument that “Small Is Still Beautiful.” Description: This lecture is part of a series sponsored by The Cornell Association of Professors Emeriti. Presented at the Boyce Thompson Institute on the Cornell campus. Videography and Editing by J. Robert Cooke. Length of Video: 53 min

2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Murphy, Royse P. Kass, Lee B. http://hdl.handle.net/1813/23087 2012-08-16T05:02:23Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Evolution of Plant Breeding at Cornell University Authors: Murphy, Royse P.; Kass, Lee B. Abstract: Drs. Royse P. Murphy and Lee B. Kass prepared this 179-page account of the history of Plant Breeding—among the most distinguished academic departments at Cornell—on the occasion of its centennial. In addition to a wealth of historical data for the department and for the university and an equally impressive collection of photographs with identifications and the six living department chairs characterize the milestones that occurred during their terms of departmental leadership. This department in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is admired for its collegial and productive environment. Two of its graduates have been honored as Nobel laureates, notwithstanding that the work in this field is not normally considered for that honor. Find here a record of immense productivity in its teaching, research and outreach activities and its impact upon the university, the state, the nation and the countries of the world.

2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Cooke, J. Robert http://hdl.handle.net/1813/22368 2012-09-28T05:05:09Z 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: The Origin and History of the Internet, a lecture by Ken King Authors: Cooke, J. Robert Abstract: In this February 17, 2011 lecture to the Cornell Association of Professors Emeriti at Cornell University, Kenneth M. King traces the evolution of the Internet from its roots in higher education. This is a personal account of the political steps (rather than the hardware or software aspects) in the creation and evolution of a major technological development of our time. King was involved with computing at universities from 1953 to 1998 and served as president of EDUCOM (1987–1992). In this talk he describes the primary and under-celebrated role that universities played in the creation and evolution of networking and the Internet, specifically highlighting the role Cornell people played.

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