Charles J. Whalen, senior economist with the Institute of Industry Studies at Cornell, is scheduled to testify before the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs on April 23 in Washington, D.C., in support of establishing a two-year budget and appropriations cycle for the U.S. government.
Antonio Mercader, Uruguay's ambassador to the Organization of American States, will give a lecture at Cornell on April 28, at 4:30 p.m. in Room G-08 Uris Hall. The free and public lecture is titled "El Futuro de la Democracia en America Latina" and will be given in Spanish with English translation.
Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences honored outstanding teaching and scholarship at its annual Dean's Award Convocation on April 4. Dean Philip E. Lewis led the afternoon celebration in a packed auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall.
Pulitzer Prize--winning author and Civil War historian James M. McPherson will speak at Cornell on Tuesday, April 29, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 165 McGraw Hall.
Trying to cope with red flashing lights on green moving objects, the human visual system is tricked into revealing where yellow -- and all other colors -- apparently are composed: in the visual cortex of the brain.
Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur will give a poetry reading Thursday, April 10, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall at Cornell.
Yervant Terzian, the James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences and chairman of the astronomy department at Cornell, received an honorary doctor of science degree from the University of Thessaloniki in Greece.
