CyberTower Study Rooms are engrossing mini-courses featuring members of the Cornell faculty. Each "room" includes video-streamed lectures on a selected topic and links to Web sites selected by the faculty. To discuss these lectures with other CyberTower viewers, visit the CyberTower Facebook page.
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Darwinian Revolutions Allen MacNeill explains how Darwin's theory of evolution revolutionized the natural sciences and our understanding of the world around us.
Understanding Loons Discover the latest research on common loons, those large, fish-eating birds that winter on the ocean but breed on fresh water lakes.
Cosmology and the Anthropic Principle Astronomer Yervant Terzian considers the creation of the universe and the development of life on Earth.
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- Prof. Richard Polenberg "Woody Guthrie: His Life, Times, and Music"
- Prof. Billie Jean Isbell "From Serfs to Political Actors: Were Cornell's Changes in an Andean Community for the Best?"
- Prof. Charles Smith "Attracting Wild Birds"
- Prof. Christopher B. Barrett "International Food Aid After 50 Years"
- Prof. David S. Powers "What is Islamic Law?"
- Prof. Jane Mt. Pleasant "First Peoples, First Crops: Iroquois Agriculture, Past and Present"
- Prof. Hunter Rawlings, Jeffrey Rusten and David Feldshuh "Antigone"
- Prof. Robert Ascher "Myth, Film, and Dream"
- Prof. Francine Blau "The Gender Pay Gap: Going, Going...But Not Gone"
- Prof. Jeffrey Rusten "Ancient Athens"
- Prof. Kenneth A.R. Kennedy "Human Paleontology"
- Prof. David A. Levitsky "Health and Nutrition: Whom can you trust?"
- Prof. Arthur Wheaton "Today's Cars: Where in the World Do They Come From?"
- Prof. Warren Brown "Marketing to Generations"
- Prof. Daniel R. Schwarz "Reading James Joyce's Ulysses"
- Prof. Yervant Terzian "Cosmology and Anthropic Principle - III"
- Prof. Rachel E Bean "The Puzzling Life of the Universe"
- Prof. Tarleton Gillespie "Wired Shut - Copyright and the shape of digital culture"
- Temple Grandin "Autism"
- Prof. Drew Harvell "Coral Reef Sustainability"
- Prof. Bruce Levitt "Creating Jacques Brel at Cornell"
- Prof. John H. Weiss "The Casablanca Connection"
- Prof. Barry Perlus "Jantar Mantar - The Astronomical Observatories of Jai Singh II"
- Prof. Ken Mudge "Natural and Human History of Plant Cloning"
- Prof. Joe M. Regenstein "Halal and Kosher: The Muslim and Jewish Dietary Laws"
- Prof. Biddy Martin and Isaac Kramnick "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein"
- Prof. John S. Henderson "Maya Civilization"
- Prof. Mike Shapiro "The Psychology of Television Realism"
- Prof. Stephen Yale-Loehr "Us vs. Them: The Immigration Debate in the US"
- Prof. Roger Gilbert "From Whiteville to Ithaca: A.R. Ammons's Scenic Route"
- Prof. Alan S. Weber "Storming the Citadel"
- Jennifer Bokaer-Smith "Making a Successful Transition to Cornell"
- Prof. E. D. Intemann "Poetry Of Light"
- Prof. Joe M. Regenstein "Animal Welfare"
- Prof. Steven F. Pond "Where Did Rhythm-and-Blues Come From?"
- Prof. Banoo Parpia "The China Project: Studying the Link Between Diet and Disease"
- Prof. Marcia Eames-Sheavly "Fine Art and Horticulture"
- Prof. Franklin W. Robinson "Rembrandt's Etchings: A Portrait in Black and White"
- Prof. Ross Brann "Islam"
- Prof. Kent Hubbell "Ezra's Farmstead: The Origins of Cornell "
- Prof. Mary Beth Norton "The Columbian Encounter"
- Prof. Donald A. Rakow "A Brief History of English Garden Design"
- Prof. Daniel R. Schwarz "Imagining the Holocaust"
- Prof. Vernon Gracen "Plant Breeding Then and Now"
- Prof. Rocco Scanza "Conflict Resolution"
- Prof. Linda S. Rayor "A Romance with Spiders"
- Prof. Jim Self "N2 Da Fu Cha Cha"
- Stephanie Hanson "Watch Your Language: Improving Communication with Non-Native Speakers"