Jan Schlichtmann JD '77, the principal plaintiffs' attorney in a major environmental civil case documented in the paperback best seller A Civil Action, will participate in a panel discussion on March 26.
Before Uyen Nguyen ever got to Cornell last fall, an upperclassman wrote to welcome her to campus and say he'd be her mentor during her first year here. "It's easy to feel lost here because Cornell is such a big university, but having a mentor made me feel like I belonged, that people actually cared about me," said Nguyen.
Every wound requires biomaterials to close it. A new book provides comprehensive information on state-of-the-art, innovative biomaterials, devices and techniques used in wound closure.
The Northeast survived the 11th warmest February in 103 years of record -- warm enough to shatter six all-time temperature records for the month and set or tie 47 daily high-temperature records, according to climatologists at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell.
Sileshi Semaw, a renowned paleoanthropologist whose research team has unearthed some of the oldest known stone tools, will discuss his work in a public lecture at Cornell, March 25, at 3 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall.
With more than 42 million people enrolled in managed care programs, social workers and other human service professionals have become increasingly concerned about ethical dilemmas and issues related to client advocacy, access, regulation and consumer protection.
Cornell Plantations officials are asking for the return of about a dozen yucca plants stolen from a site on Judd Falls Road and a bronze plaque that is missing from the Mary Rockwell Azalea Garden on Tower Road.
In a 20-mile radius of York, N.Y., more than 30,000 dairy cows on 100 farms produce as much sludge as 1.5 million people. But with the help of Cornell agricultural engineers, the community literally may soon clear the air.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- For nearly 125 years, historians have assumed that a letter Cornell University Founder Ezra Cornell wrote and placed for posterity into the Sage Hall cornerstone had addressed the university's coeducational status. After all, the campus building was to house the Sage College for Women at the only public coeducational institution of higher education in the eastern United States. But historians could only assume; Cornell made no copy of his letter and showed it to no one at the time. No one but Cornell himself knew its contents. Until now.
Rem Koolhaas and Bernard Tschumi, two influential architects who have made their marks designing urban parks and cities, will deliver the 1997 Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lectures at Cornell.
The biological applications of engineering, or bioengineering, is the topic of the 1997 Cornell Society of Engineers annual conference April 10-12 at Cornell.
