It may be that the notorious "glass ceiling" is actually a glass door, but one that women can open only after other women have already done so, says new research by Professor Heather A. Haveman at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Colin Rowe, one of architecture's most influential scholars and one of its leading commentators, will be honored with a Festschrift April 26-28 at Cornell University. Rowe, the Andrew Dickson White Professor of Architecture Emeritus, taught at Cornell from 1962 to 1990. He will speak April 28 at 10:30 a.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall. The Festschrift, an academic tribute reserved for noted faculty, will attract scholars and practitioners from across the United States and Great Britain and feature four major addresses, a panel discussion and eight papers delivered by Rowe's former students and colleagues. Many of the activities will examine the teaching of architecture education and urban design, issues of importance to Rowe.
Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has named George Casella, professor of biometrics, Dennis Gonsalves, professor of plant pathology; and Maureen Hanson, professor of biological sciences, as the newest Liberty Hyde Bailey Professors. Liberty Hyde Bailey was among the first of the truly supreme professors at Cornell.
A white-tailed deer on a ledge of a gorge on the Cornell campus should be left alone to find its way out because a rescue attempt would be too risky -- for both humans and the animal, Cornell and state conservation officials say.
The student-run Cornell Program Board is presenting "An Evening with Bill Maher" at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 30, in Bailey Hall on the Cornell University campus. Tickets for Bill Maher's Bailey Hall show are $5 for students; $7 for the general public; and are on sale at the Willard Straight Hall ticket office.
Training for Wall Street used to mean an MBA degree in finance and a smattering of computer courses. Not anymore. At Cornell, finance and engineering students are putting financial models and applications to the test on IBM's largest supercomputer, the 512-node Scalable RS/6000 POWERparallel Systems at the Cornell Theory Center.
Will there be librarians in the 21st century? Or for that matter will there be books 100 years from now? Alain Seznec, the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell and professor of Romance studies, will give his fearless prediction for the future of the library in the information age during a presentation Wednesday, April 10.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews, a columnist with The Washington Post and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, will present the 1996 Bartels World Affairs Fellowship Lecture at Cornell on Tuesday, April 9, at 5 p.m. in Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall.
With cherry blossoms about to bloom, more than half a million tourists descend on the nation's capital as they do every spring, capturing the beauty and serenity of the 3,500 cherry trees along the Tidal Basin and Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. Peak bloom is expected April 4-9, with the annual National Cherry Blossom Festival March 31-April 4.
The Cornell International Students Programming Board is having a party, and everyone's invited. April 4 through 20, students will host an "International Festival" celebrating Cornell's cultural diversity.
Cornell's voice just became a little clearer on the radio. Cornell News Service and Media Services have completed the installation of Integrated Services Digital Network service, which provides a high-fidelity telephone link to radio and television stations and networks worldwide
Experts in ecology, landscape architecture and horticulture will join staff members of Cornell Plantations April 13 at Pennsylvania's Longwood Gardens for a day-long exploration of the "living museum" and "classroom without walls" that embraces one of the nation's most beautiful college campuses.