Pulitzer Prize--winning author and Civil War historian James M. McPherson will speak at Cornell on Tuesday, April 29, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 165 McGraw Hall.
The Syracuse Gallery of Superb Printing, which issues awards for outstanding examples of printing in Central New York, has honored Cayuga Press of Ithaca with 15 awards -- two of them for publications from Cornell's Akwe:kon Press.
An exhibition drawn from one of the largest collections of George Bernard Shaw materials opens April 17 in the Exhibition Gallery of Cornell University's Carl A. Kroch Library.
Matthew Semino of Winthrop, Mass., a Cornell junior majoring in human service studies in the College of Human Ecology, has been chosen as a national Truman Scholar.
Acting on an anonymous tip, Cornell Police have charged two freshman students with reckless endangerment in connection with an April Fools' Day prank in which the students allegedly placed a dummy at the bottom of Cascadilla Gorge.
Helping no hablo espanol doctors distinguish embarazo (pregnancy) and esforzarse (muscle strain) from escalofrios (chills) is the easy part. Surmounting the cultural barriers between foreign-born workers and the medical help they need -- that's the real challenge for Cornell students in the Cornell-Finger Lakes Migrant Health Program.
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.
