Former Israeli prime minister and Nobel Prize winner Shimon Peres will be the 1999 Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellow at Cornell on March 17.
A commonly used drug for reducing toxicological effects of lead poisoning might alter immune function, a Cornell University study of pregnant rats and their offspring has found.
F.W. de Klerk, South Africa's last president under the system of apartheid and recipient of a 1993 Nobel Prize, will give a public lecture in Newman Arena in the Field House at Cornell.
As part of ongoing efforts to initiate campus dialogue on critical issues, Cornell University President Hunter Rawlings and Dean of the Faculty J. Robert Cooke are cosponsoring a University Faculty Forum.
The Cornell Work and Environment Initiative and the town of Londonderry, N.H., are conducting a national design competition for a site design of an eco-industrial park and its 25,000-square-foot flexible industrial building. Londonderry.
The committee for the 1999 Robert S. Smith Award for community progress and innovation is calling for proposals from local community organizations and agencies.
Joseph DeRisi of the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, will be the speaker at a genomics colloquium.
A team of three computer science students from Cornell will compete with 62 teams from six continents in the finals of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest.
State Assemblyman Martin A. Luster is holding a series of town meetings in the 125th District. Henrik N. Dullea, vice president for university relations prepared the following remarks for delivery at a town meeting in the Council Chambers of City Hall in Cortland.
After analyzing hundreds of high-resolution pictures of the Martian surface taken by the orbiting Mars Surveyor spacecraft, a team of researchers finds that weathering and winds on the planet create landforms, especially sand dunes.
Manufacturers that produce shirts, hats and other apparel using the names of colleges and universities are under pressure to eliminate "sweatshops" by following a code of conduct that establishes safe and humane working conditions in their factories.
Cornell students will help explain the mysteries of machines ranging from the internal combustion engine to the automatic teller machine at the sixth annual Engineering Day at Pyramid Mall on Feb. 20.
