The Mars Exploration Rover, one of the two vehicles scheduled to explore the surface of Mars in 2004, is built and seemingly ready for its trip, complete with a full payload of scientific instruments— about two years in advance. But this is not the real rover.
Carol Bellamy, executive director of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), will be the 2002 Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellow at Cornell University, March 4 and 5. Bellamy, who most recently has been working on behalf of UNICEF with the children of war-torn Afghanistan, will present the Bartels Fellowship Lecture Monday, March 4, at 8 p.m. in the Alice Statler Auditorium of Statler Hall on campus. A reception immediately following the lecture will be held in the Statler foyer. (February 14, 2002)
Leon Anziano, former president and chief executive of Arch Chemicals Inc., will give the eighth Raymond G. Thorpe Lecture in the School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at Cornell University, Feb. 21. His talk, "Transforming a Business with Innovation and Empowerment," will be in 155 Olin Hall at 4:30 p.m. It is free and open to the public. Anziano, a 1965 alumnus of Cornell, became a visiting professor in the School of Business at the University of New Haven in 2000 following his retirement as president and chief operating officer of Arch Chemicals. The specialty chemicals concern, with interests in microelectronic chemicals, water chemicals and performance chemicals, was spun off from Olin Corp. in 1999. (February 14, 2002)
Khotso Mokhele, president of the National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa, will give a lecture, "Science, Democracy and Development," at Cornell University on Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 4:30 p.m. in 122 Rockefeller Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public. It is presented as the 2001-02 Nordlander Lecture in Science and Public Policy, sponsored by Cornell's Department of Science and Technology Studies and the vice provost for research. (February 14, 2002)
HONOLULU -- Although many of the world's major estuaries are polluted, until now there has not been a study that uniformly compares levels of nitrogen, carbon and phosphorus in two separate bodies of water. Environmental biologists have now made it possible to directly compare, for instance, the Chesapeake Bay to the Gulf of Gdansk in Poland. The uniform methodology they have developed to measure the carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus levels -- indicating runoff from industry and agriculture -- in the world's waters will be discussed today (Feb. 13) at the American Geophysical Union Ocean Sciences meeting, at the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu. (February 14, 2002)
Cornell University alumni and longtime benefactors Robert J. and Helen H. Appel have committed $15 million to support the second phase of the university's Residential Initiative, a new living and learning environment for upper-level students on West Campus, Cornell President Hunter Rawlings announced recently. (February 14, 2002)
The latest in insect control: "cotton candy." One day farmers might exchange pesticides for an industrial grade polymer that looks and acts like cotton candy as a major weapon against onion maggots, cabbage maggots, corn earworms and other agricultural pests.
A group of Cornell hospitality management students said "yes" to a rare opportunity Jan. 2-4: to study with the masters while experiencing luxury service firsthand at hotels in Beverly Hills.
Economist Robert Frank and legal scholar Martha Fineman are among the distinguished Cornell University faculty speakers launching a new honors program through the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs.
Maureen O'Hara, professor of finance at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, was named president of the American Finance Association this January.
A team of Cornell scientists, aided by a $837,000 Microbial Observatory grant from the National Science Foundation, is going after methane-generating bacteria and other microbes.
