Warren Rudman, former U.S. senator from New Hampshire, will deliver the inaugural Ben and Rhoda Belnick Fund for Government Studies Lecture Thursday, April 26, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall at Cornell.
A collaborative workshop drawing from the disciplines of art, science, and computing will be held April 20 and 21 to launch Cornell Library's sponsorship of the Internet art journal Ctheory Multimedia , a semi-annual collection of electronic art and theory to be published this spring.
Celebrated poet Ruth Stone will read from her works at Cornell for the Creative Writing Program's biannual Chasen Poetry Reading Thursday, April 19, at 4 p.m. in the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall.
On Monday, April 16, Ambassador Alon Pinkas, the Counsel General of Israel, will give two talks titled "The Middle East After Israeli Elections: Thoughts on the Past and Prospects for the Future" in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall.
More than just dust was kicked up when NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous spacecraft, NEAR Shoemaker, made a successful landing on asteroid 433 Eros on Feb. 12. Also disturbed were the memories of an experiment carried out more than three decades ago by a student of Thomas Gold, professor emeritus of astronomy at Cornell.
Does the Amazon River basin thrive with more tree biomass than that along the shores of Opeongo Lake in Canada's Algonquin Provincial Park? Is the Congo Basin more tree biomass-rich than the Argonne Forest in northeastern France?
An entirely new class of rubbery plastics has been produced in the laboratory by a Cornell researcher and two co-workers. Because the material uses two common and inexpensive petroleum products, ethylene and polyethylene, for its feedstock, the research has the promise of greatly reduced production costs.
Most people are better judges of other people's moral character than they are of their own. Experiments conducted at Cornell and reported in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found many people making an error in self-assessment.
