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Cornell President Rawlings issues statement on harassment incidents

Cornell President Hunter Rawlings today (Nov. 19, 1998) issued the following statement to the campus community: "Over the last four weeks, there have been at least six incidents in which members of the university community have been the subject of harassment because of their race, ethnicity or sexual orientation."

Holy cow! Cornell Dairy Bar wants you to 'heifer' nice holiday

It's the luminescent bovine event of the holiday season. Those clopping sounds emanating from the Cornell Dairy Bar rooftop belong not to reindeer but to Cornell University cows.

Betty Friedan to discuss American values in Cornell University lecture Dec. 3

Feminist leader Betty Friedan will discuss whether Americans need a "values revolution" in a lecture at Cornell University on Thursday, Dec. 3, at 7 p.m. in Room 305 Ives Hall.

William T. Miller, Manhattan Project scientist and Cornell professor of chemistry, dies at 87

William T. Miller, a key scientist on the Manhattan Project team that developed the atomic bomb in World War II and a member of the chemistry faculty at Cornell from 1936 to 1977, died Nov. 15 at the Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca.

Breakthrough DNA device for plant breeders developed at Cornell's Geneva Experiment Station

The device in Norm Weeden's laboratory at Cornell's New York State Agricultural Experiment Station looks more like a high-tech waffle iron than something that could revolutionize the science of selective plant breeding.

Cornell's Bilderback receives Compton Award from Argonne Lab

Donald H. Bilderback, associate adjunct professor of applied and engineering physics at Cornell and associate director of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), has received the 1998 Compton Award from the Advanced Photon Source (APS) at Argonne National Laboratory.

Cornell to celebrate 50th anniversary of breakthrough ventilation system Nov. 23

It brought a breath of fresh air. That was the achievement of a remarkable agricultural invention called the slotted inlet ventilation, dreamed up by Cornell Professor William F. Millier. Now the 50th anniversary of the discovery is to be celebrated by ASAE.

Memorial service for David J. Wasdyke to be held Nov. 19

A campus memorial service for David J. Wasdyke, a Cornell student who died Nov. 7, will be held Thursday, Nov. 19, from 4 to 5 p.m. in the chapel at Anabel Taylor Hall. Janet Shortall, assistant director of Cornell United Religious Work, will conduct the service.

Cornell President Rawlings announces plan to reorganize biological sciences

Cornell President Hunter Rawlings today (Nov. 17, 1998) announced a plan to reorganize the Division of Biological Sciences. Rawlings said he will implement the primary recommendations of the Task Force on the Division of the Biological Sciences, which was commissioned by Provost Don M. Randel.

Seven Cornellians among publication's '100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century'

Cornell women are well-represented in the 'Ladies Home Journal 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century.' During the meeting, which took place two months before the death of Princess Diana, Norton and the other advisers reduced the original master list to about 150 names.

Cornell Anthropology Collections acquires rare Amazonian artifacts from rain forest advocacy group

Just 10 days after a phone call from Amanaka'a, an Amazonian advocacy group that closed its New York offices this month, Cornell University's Anthropology Collections found itself in possession of rare Amazonian artifacts.

Expert on children and law kicks off 25th anniversary celebration of Cornell's Family Life Development Center

To kick off the yearlong celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Family Life Development Center (FLDC) at Cornell, Nancy Walker, a developmental psychologist and researcher from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, will give two talks on children and the law, Tuesday, Dec. 1.