Do you want to give kids the gift of a green thumb? Learn how to teach children about gardening at a two-day educational symposium, "Education in Blossom: The School Garden - Community Partnership," July 31 to Aug. 1, at the State University of New York College at Cortland, hosted by the college and Cornell.
Could an ancient plant rooted in thousands of years of Chinese tradition provide an economic boost to New York forest owners? A new cooperative team of researchers at Cornell and the North American Ginseng Assoc. is going to find out.
Cornell's Graduate Program in Medieval Studies appoints no faculty of its own. Yet faculty from 13 departments within the College of Arts and Sciences choose, out of love, to devote their time and energy to the program and its extremely diverse and dedicated group of students.
Societal changes are inextricably linked to changes in women's roles and status. And throughout March, Cornell will host a series of programs that explore these linkages - particularly in terms of what they tell us about notions of "family values," that loaded expression that has been a rallying cry of political conservatives.
Leaders of the international trend toward "greener" corporations will speak in an eight-part seminar series at Cornell titled "Industrial Ecology: Connecting Business and the Environment." The seminar series began Feb. 14 with a presentation by Andrea Farrell, chair of the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable.
Paul Britten Austin, a poet and relative of filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, will give two public lectures at Cornell on Monday, March 3, including one about his renowned brother-in-law. In a lecture titled "The Bergman Background," at 4:30 p.m. in the Film Forum of the Center for Theatre Arts.
Legal scholars from across the country and abroad will participate in the 1997 Cornell Law Review symposium, "The Nature and Sources, Formal and Informal, of Law," on March 1 and 2 at the Cornell Law School.
Cornell's Summer College -- one of the nation's first summer programs for high school students -- is offering full scholarships for students from high schools in Tompkins County. A special fund has been established to provide two full scholarships a year for the next five years.
Cornell officials have unveiled a new strategic plan aimed at strengthening the Greek system and helping to integrate fraternity and sorority residential life with the undergraduate educational experience.
When the National Geographic Society's hunt for living giant squid sends sperm whales with video cameras to the ocean depths this month off New Zealand's South Island, the "camerawhales" will be tracked by the Cornell Bioacoustics Research program.
California, Chinese and Mediterranean cuisine will tempt the palates of patrons attending this year's Guest Chef Series, sponsored by Cornell's School of Hotel Administration.
