Cornell will increase its voluntary contribution to the Ithaca City School District from $150,000 in the current school year to $250,000 next year, university officials announced today. For more than two decades, Cornell has provided the school district with voluntary cash contributions to help improve the quality and variety of programs offered to all children receiving district services.
The Executive Committee of Cornell's Board of Trustees will hold a brief open session when it meets in Manhattan at 12:30 p.m., Thursday, April 17, at the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St.
Robert H. Foote, Cornell professor emeritus of animal science and a pioneer in cloning, will testify at hearings before the New York State Assembly Committee on Science and Technology on April 14.
Cornell has established an Office of Distance Learning to explore ways to extend the boundaries of the university through the use of communication technologies.
A two-day discussion of business, environment and urban areas will feature Mary Nichols, assistant administrator for air and radiation at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, speaking Friday, April 18, at 10 a.m. in 253 Malott Hall, Cornell.
Robert A. Brown, the dean of engineering and the Warren K. Lewis Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver the 10th annual Julian C. Smith Lectures in Chemical Engineering at Cornell on April 22 and April 24.
The public is bombarded with nutritional "information du jour" that, in general, provides poor guidance for individual and public decisions, a Cornell University nutrition expert says. Yet, applying science-based knowledge for healthier populations is no simple feat.
Cats with the annoying habit of spraying urine on vertical surfaces are needed at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine for a clinical trial of a new treatment.
Kenneth F. Kahn, founder of LRP Publications and publisher of Human Resource Executive, has received the 1997 Judge William B. Groat Alumni Award from the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
Trying to cope with red flashing lights on green moving objects, the human visual system is tricked into revealing where yellow -- and all other colors -- apparently are composed: in the visual cortex of the brain.
Lt. Col. Oliver L. North will give a free and public lecture at Cornell on Monday, April 14, at 8 p.m. in Statler Hall Auditorium. Titled "The New Conservative Covenant."
Phillip Valentine Tobias, one of the world's leading experts on prehistoric human ancestors, will give a lecture at Cornell University on Thursday, April 17, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall. The lecture is presented as part of the A.D. White Professors-at-Large series.
