Charles J. Arntzen, president and chief executive officer of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, and Gregory D. May, a plant scientist at the institute and adjunct professor of plant biology at Cornell, will receive the 1998 Inventors of the Year award April 23.
Cornell students, including members of fraternities and sororities, and Collegetown residents will clean up the streets of Collegetown on Saturday, April 24.
The fifth annual James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony at Cornell was awarded to the campus Multicultural Living Learning Unit at a ceremony April 7 in Willard Straight Hall.
Harvard University historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the only person ever to win a Pulitzer Prize in history for a work on women, will deliver two Carl Becker Lectures.
Suzanne Jill Levine, a leading translator of the fictional works of Argentine writer Manuel Puig, will speak about her current research on a biography of the author.
The annual reception of the Community Partnership Board, a program of the Cornell Public Service Center, will be Wednesday, April 14, at 5 p.m. in the Corson-Mudd Hall atrium.
A Rochester developer has announced plans to construct a 106-room hotel at the corner of Route 13 and Warren Road in the Cornell Business and Technology Park.
A Cornell astronomer who helped save a $150 million space mission last December was rewarded at a surprise party this afternoon with a truly heavenly gift: A minor planet named in her honor.
F. Sherwood Rowland, will inaugurate the Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lectureship at Cornell April 20 and 21 with lectures on science and public policy.
William Sanders, who is honored April 15, as Cornell's 1999 Entrepreneur of the Year for his accomplishments. Sanders also will deliver the Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year address Friday, April 16, at 2:30 p.m. in Sage Hall, Room B-08.
