An interdisciplinary, regional conference entirely organized and conducted by Cornell graduate students will be held on campus May 7-9 in Room 401 Warren Hall. The Second Annual Great Lakes Graduate Conference in Political Economy.
Children in schools bombarded by frequent aircraft noise don't learn to read as well as children in quiet schools, Cornell researchers have confirmed. And they have discovered one major reason: kids tune out speech in the racket.
The Cornell Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers this weekend will finish construction on a pedestrian/bicycle bridge over Cascadilla Creek to link the Ithaca Sciencenter and the Tompkins County Cornell Cooperative Extension office, adjacent to Route 13.
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Pierre-Gilles de Gennes will speak on "Novel Schemes for Artificial Muscle" when he delivers a Gemant Lecture on Monday, May 5, at 3:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, at Cornell.
An "education vacation" in the islands -- the Gulf of Maine's Isles of Shoals, in particular -- is offered to adults taking non-credit courses this summer at Shoals Marine Laboratory. Weekend and five-day courses are scheduled on Appledore Island by Cornell and the University of New Hampshire, which jointly operate Shoals Marine Laboratory.
Cornell's alumni body recently elected Judith C. Areen and Samuel C. Fleming to four-year terms on the Cornell Board of Trustees. They succeed Eleanor S. Applewhaite and J. Thomas Clark on the board effective July 1. Applewhaite and Clark are completing four-year terms as alumni elected trustees.
New York state voters are increasingly frustrated by gridlock in the two houses of the state legislature, an impasse that results in delayed legislation, late budgets and a seemingly never-ending refrain of raucous debate and recrimination. Is it time to change the whole system?
Representatives from a dozen agricultural universities and research facilities from around the world finished a three-day meeting April 11 at Cornell to hammer out details on an alliance to improve diets worldwide.
A recent Cornell graduate and a current junior, both from the College of Arts and Sciences, have just received major national awards: the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies and the Beinecke Brothers Memorial Scholarship.
Vera Bauer Palmer from Niagara Falls, N.Y., a Cornell graduate student in the Department of English, has received a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for Minorities. Bauer.
Peter Galbraith, the U.S. ambassador to Croatia, will discuss the successes and failures of the negotiated peace in the former Yugoslavia in a keynote address during "Making Peace Agreements Work," a two-day symposium beginning Friday, April 25, at the Cornell Law School.
