The annual Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference at Cornell will be held Tuesday, Dec. 14, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. On-site registration will begin at 9 a.m. Sponsored by Cornell's Department of Agricultural, Resource and Managerial Economics, the conference will feature forecasts for agricultural and economic issues.
Floating bubbles and disposable diapers, both the products of chemistry, will be part of the annual Chemistry Fair, in celebration of National Chemistry Week, at Pyramid Mall.
This month, science teachers in middle and high schools from across the Northeast will get the chance to be part of the exploration of space. Cornell and the Ithaca Sciencenter are hosting a NASA-supported workshop.
Tomorrow's computer keyboard might be played more like an accordion than a piano, says a Cornell ergonomist. This, he says, is because a prototype vertical split keyboard allows two to three times more typing movements to stay in safe, low-risk positions for carpal tunnel syndrome compared with a traditional keyboard.
The Cornell Research Foundation Inc., which puts much of Cornell University research to commercial use, has a new president. He is James A. Severson, previously a marketing director at the University of Minnesota.
An unusual type of eye - resembling a tiny raspberry and possibly following a design principle that vanished with the extinction of trilobites hundreds of millions of years ago - lives today in a parasitic insect.
Friends and colleagues of Lynn Shannon Proctor, a Cornell graduate student in applied and engineering physics, will hold a community gathering and support meeting Thursday (Nov. 4) at 3 p.m. in 701 Clark Hall.
Stanley Fish, a prominent public intellectual who is a renowned scholar in both law and literature, will deliver the fall 1999 Robert S. Stevens Lecture at Cornell Law School this Friday, Nov. 5.
Dale E. Klein, the Bob R. Dorsey Professor of Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin and vice chancellor for special engineering programs in the University of Texas system, will visit Cornell.
Push a number on a palm-sized cell phone and the signal travels to an interior chip with physical features some five orders of magnitude smaller than the number button. That connection is called "electronic packaging," and the challenges presented by this huge discrepancy in size are becoming a serious problem for microelectronics.
The National Science Foundation has awarded Cornell a three-year, $1.35 million grant to provide high school teaching fellowships for college graduate students and advanced undergraduates in the sciences.
John Callister, assistant professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, has been named director of Cornell's Harvey Kinzelberg Enterprise Engineering Program.
