Africa is arguably the richest continent on Earth in terms of its natural resources, yet its share of world trade is less than five percent, writes Muna Ndulo, a Cornell visiting professor of law, in the current issue of the Institute for African Development newsletter Africa Notes.
Marshall Sahlins, the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, will deliver a lecture titled "Sentimental Pessimism and Ethnographic Experience: Why Culture is Not a Disappearing Object" at Cornell University Friday, Nov. 1, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 165 McGraw Hall.
The Materials Science Center (MSC) at Cornell University has received funding for another five years, topping the list of institutions that were funded by the National Science Foundation as centers of materials research.
Frank Press, senior fellow with the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C., will give a free, public lecture at Cornell on Monday, Oct. 21. The lecture, "Out of Chaos: A Better Way to Support Science," is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Monday in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.
Cornell researchers have found a way to boost what may be whole milk's natural cancer-fighting ability. By making simple changes in the cow's feed, they have substantially increased the amount of conjugated lineoic acid (CLA) -- a cancer-fighting compound -- in the milk.
Hundreds of members of the Board of Trustees and University Council will arrive on campus Thursday, Oct. 24, for Cornell University's annual Trustee/Council Weekend.
Persons seeking to recover damages from people or corporations who injure them will soon be out of luck -- and money, a law professor from Cornell will warn a conference of bankruptcy judges and lawyers in San Diego on Friday (Oct. 18).
Although self-help organizations have long suspected that "it takes one to help one" might be true, new Cornell University research shows that social contact with people who have been through the same life change crisis are, by far, the most helpful.
The Honorable George J. Mitchell, former Senate majority leader and a special adviser to President Bill Clinton in Ireland, will be the 1996 Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellow at Cornell University Oct. 23 and 24.
The period of Jan. 1 through Sept. 30 was the wettest for the Northeast in 102 years of records, according to climatologists from the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.
Christian Jouhaud, the Luigi Einaudi Chair in Modern European and International Studies at Cornell University, will present the Einaudi Lecture on Tuesday, Oct. 22, at 4:30 p.m. in the A.D. White House on the Cornell campus.
They could have called it "Applied Biology-Chemistry-Physiology-Ecology-Risk Analysis-Current Affairs." Instead, the faculty members who developed a first for Cornell -- and one of the few undergraduate courses at any American university to address the health and environmental effects of toxic substances -- settled for "Principles of Toxicology."
