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.
Acting on an anonymous tip, Cornell Police have charged two freshman students with reckless endangerment in connection with an April Fools' Day prank in which the students allegedly placed a dummy at the bottom of Cascadilla Gorge.
The Executive Committee of Cornell's Board of Trustees will hold a brief open session when it meets in Manhattan at 12:30 p.m., Thursday, April 17, at the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St.
Cornell has established an Office of Distance Learning to explore ways to extend the boundaries of the university through the use of communication technologies.
Robert A. Brown, the dean of engineering and the Warren K. Lewis Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver the 10th annual Julian C. Smith Lectures in Chemical Engineering at Cornell on April 22 and April 24.
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.
