The distinguished teaching career of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie will be honored this month with a tribute, simply called "Readings for Alison Lurie." The event, sponsored by Cornell's Department of English and Program of Creative Writing.
As Robert (Bob) Petrillose, the owner of Ithaca's late-night Johnny's Hot Truck, nears retirement, a group of Cornell alumni are seeking to give his locally famous menu of pizza sub sandwiches a national audience.
Horticulturists, authors and landscape designers - plus one ecologist, one mycologist and one literary critic - are in the lineup for the Fall '99 Cornell Plantations Seminar Series with 10 Wednesday evening lectures, starting Sept. 8 at Cornell.
Having his acclaimed book of literary criticism, "The Mirror and the Lamp: Romantic Theory and the Critical Tradition," ranked as No. 25 in the Modern Library's list of the 100 best nonfiction books written in English during the past 100 years doesn't seem to have fazed M.H. (Mike) Abrams.
For the first time in history, humanity will send a sundial to another planet. Inscribed with the motto "Two Worlds, One Sun," the sundial will travel to Mars aboard NASA's Mars Surveyor 2001 lander.
F. Sherwood Rowland, will inaugurate the Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lectureship at Cornell April 20 and 21 with lectures on science and public policy.
Polley Ann McClure, vice president for information technology and communication and professor of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia, has been appointed by Provost Don M. Randel as Cornell University's new vice president for information technologies.
In the snow-muffled quiet, there rings a reminder of a romance past - that of heiress Jennie McGraw, the chimes' first donor, and her scholarly though modest-of-means suitor and then husband, Cornell's first librarian, Willard Fiske.
