Almost 50 years ago, physicists determined the value of one of the fundamental fixed values of physics, the fine structure constant, using quantum electrodynamics theory -- or did they?
Three advanced technologies are about to expand the horizons of health care, speakers at the 12th annual Cornell Biotechnology Symposium, "Frontiers in Biomedicine," will predict on Oct. 15 from 9 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. in the ground floor conference room of the Biotechnology Building at Cornell.
Area agriculturists and dairy farmers are invited to an open house at Maple Lane Manor, a 100--milking cow, tie-stall dairy, located in Apulia Station, N.Y., on Wednesday, Oct. 2 from noon to 3 p.m.
Stanley Hoffmann, the Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France at Harvard University, will give a lecture titled "France and Europe" at Cornell Oct. 7, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall.
Cornell chemists have garnered three of the American Chemical Society's 10 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards for 1997, and a fourth member of the chemistry faculty, Harold A. Scheraga, has earned the ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research.
Some of North America's most misunderstood animals, the timber wolves, will try to set the record straight in a live appearance Sunday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. in Cornell University's Statler Auditorium.
Into the Streets, a program of the Public Service Center at Cornell, is sponsoring its sixth annual Fall Service Day on Saturday, Sept. 28, from 9:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. On that day, several hundred Cornell students, faculty and staff will join with members of the Ithaca community in a day of public service projects.
Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D., assistant professor of education at Moorhead State University, Minn., will lecture on "Bandwagons, Band-Aids and Beliefs: Some Thoughts on the Efficacy of Special Education," on Sept. 30, at 4:30 p.m., Room 345, Warren Hall.
The School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell has established the Jack Sheinkman Chair of Collective Bargaining in honor of the former president of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union.
