In the bayous of Arkansas, as in other forested habitats, birds are often heard before they're seen. Recorded sounds of Campephilus principalis -- and not something else that sounds almost alike -- can be high-tech "bread crumbs," according to Russ Charif.
Aside from its natural beauty, upstate New York is known for an economy that is sluggish, at best. On May 2, 2005, Cornell President Jeffrey S. Lehman will join a host of state leaders, including U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, for a one-day symposium that is dedicated to boosting the upstate economy.
Christine Natsios has been appointed director of alumni affairs at the School of Hotel Administration. Natsios, a 1985 graduate of the Hotel School, will develop and implement alumni activities and programs throughout the world for the school.
Michal Lipson, Cornell assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, is among this year's recipients of National Science Foundation (NSF) Career Awards.
Shirin Ebadi, the first Muslim woman to be a Nobel laureate and the first female to serve as a judge in Iran, will give the Kaplan Family Distinguished Lecture in Public Service on May 4.
In 1925 Cornell became the first institution of higher learning to award a doctorate in pure mathematics to an African American. But well before that, indeed, since its founding in 1865, Cornell had been pursuing cultural and intellectual variety on campus.
"Fishy Business," "Itty Bitty Pictures" and "Plants Can Breathe" have one thing in common: they were a few of the many hands-on workshops at Expanding Your Horizons, an annual conference at Cornell that encourages girls in grades 7 to 9 to explore careers in science and technology.
This summer Cornell will be the epicenter of a major national initiative to diversify humanities departments called the Future of Minorities Studies Research Project (FMS) Summer Institute.
When Joe Veverka celebrated his 60th birthday in 2001, the Department of Astronomy came up with a novel gift: an open ticket to see any opera performance anywhere in the world. But before Veverka and his wife, astronomy researcher Ann Harch, could take advantage of the gift, both of their mothers fell ill. So it is only now that the couple is able to plan a visit to the Stadtoper, the State Opera House in Vienna, where many of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's operas were first performed. (April 27, 2005)
Considering the radiance of the day, that so many would sit inside a public library for bit of "Bosh and Flapdoodle" only proved that the work -- as well as the memory -- of the late A.R. Ammons is very much alive.
