Galen D. Stucky, professor of chemistry at the University of California-Santa Barbara, will present the Herbert H. Johnson Memorial Lectures on campus Nov. 6.
A Cornell University research team has uncovered the mechanics of a critical reaction in the combustion of hydrogen that could have implications for the future of energy production.
Stephen Kresovich, professor of plant breeding and director of the Institute for Genomic Diversity at Cornell University, has been named director of the university's Institute for Biotechnology and Life Science Technologies.
"Managing a Hispanic Workforce" is the subject of two one-day conferences designed for dairy farm managers. The conferences, sponsored by Cornell University and Pennsylvania State University, will be held Jan. 16, 2001, in Harrisburg, Pa., and Jan. 18, 2001, in Rochester, N.Y.
When a beam of X-rays is fired through a crystallized protein sample, the beam is scattered into a pattern that depends on the arrangement of atoms in the crystal. By decoding that pattern, experts can find the arrangement of the atoms and the shape of the protein molecule.
A book linking the world-renowned Salzburg Music Festival with Austria's current political flirtation with the right wing has won a top prize in Austria. Cornell professor of history Michael Steinberg's book Austria as Theater and Ideology.
NBC's Robert C. Wright will deliver this year's Hatfield address at Cornell University on Thursday, Nov. 9, at 4:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall.
For the first time, Cornell University will provide university-funded health insurance for the majority of its graduate students. The Cornell Board of Trustees at its regular meeting Oct. 28 approved the recommendation.
Carol L. Nolan, director of biopharmaceutical technical operations for Glaxo SmithKline, the multinational pharmaceutical concern, and a 1973 Cornell University alumna, will be on campus Nov. 2, to deliver the seventh annual Raymond G. Thorpe Lecture.
