The Rev. James M. Lawson Jr. will deliver Cornell University's second Martin Luther King Jr. lecture this month at 4:30 p.m. in Sage Chapel on Thursday, Feb 22. Lawson's talk is titled "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?"
Make a molecule out of candy, produce ooze or dissect a floppy disk. All three activities will be possible at Engineering Day at Pyramid Mall, Lansing, Saturday, Feb. 17, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
The committee for the 2001 Robert S. Smith Award for community progress and innovation is calling for proposals from local community organizations and agencies. Proposals are due by April 13, 2001.
How do rain, sea salts, dust, plants, climate and time affect the chemistry of soil? At what threshold, for example, does the role of rain dramatically change the soil chemistry?
Cornell and Harvard Medical School are collaborating to decipher the structures of proteins associated with human cancers. The goal, says Dan Thiel, Cornell assistant professor of molecular biology and genetics.
Cornell University food scientists and veterinarians have won a four-year, $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate how Listeria monocytogenes – the deadliest of all foodborne bacteria – evolve and travel in food, humans, animals, water and soil.
Popular and controversial educator Joe Clark will be the keynote speaker for the sixth annual Cornell Tradition convocation on the Cornell campus, Feb. 23.
Cornell University students, faculty and alumni are invited to enter the first annual Business Idea Competition sponsored by the Big Red Venture Fund, a student-managed combined fund and business incubator for start-up ventures.
Workers in the burgeoning Internet/digital design industry jockey for survival in one of the fastest growing employment sectors in the United States. Confronted with rapid changes in "new media" markets and technology, these highly-skilled professionals face serious labor challenges, according to Susan Christopherson.
Harold Levy, chancellor of the New York City public schools and a Cornell University alumnus, will be on campus Feb. 13 to speak about the field of teaching and to recruit Cornell students for the New York City Teaching Fellows program.
Walter I. Cohen, vice provost and dean of the Cornell Graduate School, is stepping down after eight years as dean, Cornell Provost Biddy Martin announced today. Cohen will step down as dean effective June 30, Martin said. He will remain as vice provost and will continue to serve on the Graduate School faculty as a professor of comparative literature.
Every person's odyssey to sexual awareness is different. But for a gay, lesbian, transgendered or bisexual teen-ager, disclosing his or her sexual preferences to parents is a particularly difficult milestone.
