Kate Light, 2004 visiting writer in the Cornell University Department of English, will give a poetry reading Wednesday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium at 3330 Carol Tatkon Center on North Campus. The reading is free and open to the public, and a reception will follow. Light is the author of The Laws of Falling Bodies, winner of the 1997 Nicholas Roerich Prize from Story Line Press, Open Slowly (Zoo Press, 2003) and Oceanophony, a full-length concert collaboration with composer Bruce Adolphe. (March 5, 2004)
Vanda Bruce McMurtry has been named vice president for government and community relations at Cornell University by President Jeffrey S. Lehman, subject to approval of the Board of Trustees.
Bill Gates sees a future in which technology manages all our information for us, with devices at work, at home and in our pockets all seamlessly linked. The hardware is already here or coming soon, he says, but the challenge is to create the software. And, he said in a campus visit Feb. 26, he needs today's college students to produce it.
The symposium, "Women Working on Mars," was part of JPL's Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day, an annual outreach event that encourages young women to consider a career in engineering or science.
A research team at Cornell has succeeded in converting nitrogen into ammonia using a long-predicted process that has challenged scientists for decades.
Steven Squyres, science team leader for the Mars rover mission and Cornell professor of astronomy, announced the powerful evidence found in recent days that Mars once had a watery environment.
On March 2, Cornell's Steven Squyres, principal investigator on the twin-rover Mars mission, told a press briefing at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., that his team had found jarosite on Mars.
The Honorable William Jefferson Clinton, 42nd president of the United States, will present the Senior Convocation address Saturday, May 29, during Cornell University's Commencement weekend. Cornell will celebrate its 136th Commencement Sunday, May 30. University President Jeffrey S. Lehman will present his first commencement address and confer degrees at that ceremony. (March 4, 2004)
Cornell Gardening Day will be held Saturday, March 27, at Canandaigua Middle School, Canandaigua, N.Y. The event, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., is organized by Cornell's Department of Horticulture and the Cornell Cooperative Extension.
Landing a spot in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's list, Top 10 Universities Receiving Most Patents in 2003, did not surprise technology-transfer specialists at Cornell Research Foundation (CRF).
Peter H. Raven, the internationally known biologist who heads St. Louis' Missouri Botanical Garden, has been named as the 2004 Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lecturer at Cornell.
