Charles R. Lee, chairman and chief executive officer of GTE Corp., will deliver this year's Hatfield address at Cornell University on Thursday, Sept. 23, at 4:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall.
A vibrant group of young Venezuelan musicians and dancers called Estudiantina VENUSA will perform Friday, Sept. 17, at 8 p.m. in Anabel Taylor Hall Auditorium on the Cornell campus.
A service project by Cornell students will bridge the gap between two community organizations and two Ithaca neighborhoods. A newly completed pedestrian and bicycle bridge over Cascadilla Creek will make it easier for residents of the Fall Creek and Northside communities to connect in many ways.
The National Science Foundation has awarded Cornell University $1.5 million for a new facility for research on multiscale problems in materials science and molecular biology.
In recent days New York state has faced a major outbreak of illness, and a fatality, caused by the E. coli O157:H7 bacterium. The bacterium is believed to have been spread through infected well water.
The distinguished teaching career of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie will be honored this month with a tribute, simply called "Readings for Alison Lurie." The event, sponsored by Cornell's Department of English and Program of Creative Writing.
Two prominent entomologists, one from Cornell, warn that three recent studies on the effects of genetically engineered crops have distorted the debate about engineered crops and that this could have "profound consequences" for science and public policy.
Six Cornell University seniors, all women, went to New York City this past summer hoping to learn how to crack Wall Street's infamous glass ceiling — that invisible, impermeable surface their mothers merely scratched.
Test question: An elevator passenger is joined by three others who immediately turn to face the side of the car. Struggling to resist the pressures of conformity, the first passenger eventually joins the rest because?
Cornell alumnus Robert G. Laughlin, whose research at Procter & Gamble Co. has contributed to a number of well-known household products, has donated $2.5 million to endow a new named professorship in the university's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.