Cornell's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Resource Office will host a town meeting on Thursday, April 11, at 6 p.m. featuring an address by President Hunter Rawlings
L. Gary Leal, professor and chair of the Department of Chemical and Nuclear Engineering at the University of California at Santa Barbara, will deliver the 1996 Julian C. Smith Lectures in Chemical Engineering at Cornell on April 23 and 25.
Researchers in Civil and Environmental Engineering and other disciplines are helping New York state address a broad range of transportation problems. The three-year contract has an anticipated budget of $1 million per year.
Clifton R. Wharton Jr., a former deputy secretary of state, chancellor of the State University of New York system and chairman of the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association and the College Retirement Equities Fund, will give the Messenger Lecture at Cornell.
Pet owners intrigued by the exotic are getting something extra with their imported iguanas -- exotic forms of Salmonella bacteria that can cause life-threatening illness in humans, Cornell University veterinary researchers are finding.
Safely back in Ithaca, the 12 students from BioES 400 (Canopy Biology and Canopy Access in the Neotropics) are glad they learned climbing fundamentals on indoor rock before heading up the Virola trees.
Arguably the two most important figures in history will be the topic of a lecture at Cornell on April 18, given by noted historian Francis E. Peters. He will be discussing not the Jesus of faith, but the Jesus of history and how historians approach both him and Muhammad.
A Cornell study may have the last word on whether a reform of New York workers' compensation program would save money and ensure quality medical care. The pilot program requires employees of participating companies who are injured at work to seek medical care from a managed care organization rather than from their family physicians.
