The science of economics explains how money behaves (as if rational people were handling it) but not the details of how people behave around money (sometimes unwisely). That's why we need the emerging science called behavioral economics, says
Comedienne Paula Poundstone has rescheduled her show at Cornell for Sunday, Feb. 7, at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall. Tickets for the original, cancelled show of Dec. 7, 1998, will be honored for the Feb. 7 event.
Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (Tcat) is holding a series of public meetings to present fare structure recommendations that are scheduled to go into effect by the end of this summer.
Want to know the slope of that hill on the north forty? Or the soil conditions there? What about the stream that flows through the middle -- how much water flows and what's its chemical composition?
The supply, quality and protection of water resources will be critical in the 21st century and will present Washington, aided by the nation's reservoir of academic brain power - particularly in land-grant colleges - with a "grand national challenge," a Cornell environmentalist warns.
It may sound funny, but it's true. John Cleese, British writer-comedian-actor and former rector of St. Andrews University in Scotland, will make two public appearances as an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large during his first official visit to the Cornell.
Cornell will present a live, interactive Public Broadcasting System (PBS) telecast Wednesday, Jan. 27, addressing the question of how higher education should prepare its students to resolve the legacies of racism and to promote racial reconciliation.
Gwendolyn Alden Dean has been named coordinator of Cornell's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Resource Center, ending a six-month national search. Dean most recently was director of Stanford University's Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Community Center.
Barbara Krause, Cornell's campus judicial administrator, has been named assistant secretary of the corporation and associate university counsel. Krause, a 1986 Cornell Law School graduate.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will establish a national gene data research center, the Center for Bioinformatics and Comparative Genomics, at Cornell. Judy St. John, an associate deputy administrator with the USDA's Agricultural Research Service, made the announcement Jan. 17 in San Diego at the Plant and Animal Genome VII Conference.
The George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism for the 1997-8 season has been awarded to Alisa Solomon. Solomon is a staff writer at the 'Village Voice', where she writes theater criticism as well as news features on a wide range of political and cultural subjects.
