ITHACA, N.Y. -- Thomas C. Devlin, the executive director of career services at Cornell University since 1978, has received the 1995 Warren E. Kauffman Award for outstanding service to the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). The Bethlehem, Pa.-based membership organization (formerly known as the College Placement Council) represents professionals involved in the career planning and employment of college students and graduates.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- How should pivotal historical events be recorded? Depicted? Commemorated? "Recent controversies in public history, from the 'Disney's America' theme park to the Smithsonian Institution's Enola Gay exhibit, have highlighted the contested nature of collective memory," says Cornell University graduate student Jeffrey Hyson. Such debates are themselves powerful reminders of the uneasy alliance of history and memory, he said. That alliance is the theme of a conference that will be held on the Cornell campus April 11 through 13, titled "History and Memory: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference." All programs are free and open to the public and will be held in the A.D. White House on the Cornell campus. The conference is being sponsored by the Department of History, Society for the Humanities, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly and Graduate History Association.
Douglas Wilder, the former governor of Virginia and a national political figure, will give a lecture at Cornell at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, in Uris Hall Auditorium. The lecture, titled "Social and Political Challenges in the '90s," is free and open to the public.
Mario Molina, one of three atmospheric chemists to share the 1995 Nobel Prize, will deliver a Chemistry Colloquium at Cornell on April 4 at 4:40 p.m. in Room 200 Baker Lab.
Many of the large problems that confront society are multidisciplinary and high-performance computating can contribute in essential ways to their solution, Malvin H. Kalos, director of the Cornell Theory Center, told a congressional panel last week.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Mario Molina, one of three atmospheric chemists to share the 1995 Nobel Prize, will deliver a Chemistry Colloquium at Cornell University on April 4 at 4:40 p.m. in Room 200 Baker Lab. His lecture, "The Chemistry of Polar Ozone Depletion," is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Cornell Chemistry Department.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Douglas Wilder, the former governor of Virginia and a national political figure, will give a lecture at Cornell University at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, in Uris Hall Auditorium. The lecture, titled "Social and Political Challenges in the '90s," is free and open to the public. On Jan. 13, 1990, Wilder achieved a milestone when he was sworn in as the first elected African-American governor in U.S. history. Notably, his election occurred in a state that was once a cornerstone of the Confederacy and that had once denied Wilder admission to its law schools.
Louise Moser Illes helped implement the downsizing process that closed a factory and put her and 900 coworkers out of a job. In January 1992, a human resources manager, was notified along with her coworkers that the semiconductor plant where she worked would shut down by year's end.
Louise Moser Illes helped implement the downsizing process that closed a factory and put her and 900 coworkers out of a job. In January 1992, Illes (pronounced ILL-liss), a human resources manager, was notified along with her coworkers that the semiconductor plant where she worked would shut down by year's end.
Former U.S. Sen. Edmund S. Muskie (D-Maine), a 1939 Cornell Law School alumnus who went on to serve as a secretary of state and to run for president, died on Monday, March 25, at Georgetown University Medical Center after suffering a heart attack following surgery to open a blocked artery in his leg. He was 81.
If hydrogen molecules could be pressured into transforming themselves into a metallic phase, would that material be a useful high-temperature superconductor? A Cornell University theoretical physicist posed just such a scenario in 1968. Now, almost 30 years after surmising it, he may be proved right.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Adults and children can make an acid-base indicator to test foods, read a book about a rabbit gardener and then sprout a kidney bean, or test several foods for fat using a paper towel. These activities are examples from two new Cornell Cooperative Extension publications that combine fun, food, nutrition and science experiments for parents, teachers, 4-H club leaders, scout leaders and other adults to do with children ages 5 to 12.
