MIT engineering dean Robert Brown will lecture at Cornell April 22, 24

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.

Colors are composed by brain, not eyes, Cornell experiment shows

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.

Peter M. Siegel is named director of Cornell Network and Computer Systems

After a two-year search, Peter M. Siegel has been named director of Cornell University Network and Computing Systems. Siegel, who has been executive director and director of corporate partnership for Cornell's Center for Theory and Simulation in Science and Engineering.

Tcat adds low-fare, midday shuttle between Cornell and downtown Ithaca

Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit General Manager Rod Ghearing has announced the introduction of the Cornell--Downtown Shuttle to complement Tcat's existing city bus service. The new Route 10 will provide express service between the Cornell campus and downtown Ithaca every 10 minutes.

Collegetown cleanup by residents and students set for April 19

Cornell students, including members of fraternities and sororities, and Collegetown residents will clean up the streets of Collegetown on Saturday, April 19.

Oliver North to give a lecture at Cornell University on April 14

Lt. Col. Oliver L. North will give a free and public lecture at Cornell on Monday, April 14, at 8 p.m. in Statler Hall Auditorium. Titled "The New Conservative Covenant."

Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott to discuss NATO at Cornell, April 24

Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, one of the key architects of a radically changing NATO, will give a free and public lecture titled "A New NATO, A New Europe" at Cornell on  April 24.

Richard Wilbur, former U.S. poet laureate, will give a reading at Cornell April 10

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.

Panelists at Cornell tackle ethical issues of the Internet April 10

The ethical issues of access, privacy and commercialization on the Internet are the topics for a panel discussion at Cornell University on April 10.