That alliance is the theme of a conference that will be held at Cornell April 11-13, titled "History and Memory: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference." All programs are free and open to the public and will be held in the A.D. White House.
Thomas C. Devlin, the executive director of career services at Cornell since 1978, has received the 1995 Warren E. Kauffman Award for outstanding service to the National Association of Colleges and Employers.
Douglas Wilder, the former governor of Virginia and a national political figure, will give a lecture at Cornell at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, in Uris Hall Auditorium. The lecture, titled "Social and Political Challenges in the '90s," is free and open to the public.
Mario Molina, one of three atmospheric chemists to share the 1995 Nobel Prize, will deliver a Chemistry Colloquium at Cornell on April 4 at 4:40 p.m. in Room 200 Baker Lab.
Louise Moser Illes helped implement the downsizing process that closed a factory and put her and 900 coworkers out of a job. In January 1992, a human resources manager, was notified along with her coworkers that the semiconductor plant where she worked would shut down by year's end.
Former U.S. Sen. Edmund S. Muskie (D-Maine), a 1939 Cornell Law School alumnus who went on to serve as a secretary of state and to run for president, died on Monday, March 25, at Georgetown University Medical Center after suffering a heart attack following surgery to open a blocked artery in his leg. He was 81.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted a one-year approval for a novel plant protectant that has been tested at Cornell University as a seed coating for onions. This new treatment promises to help save New York's onion crop, providing that it can gain full approval for use beyond 1996.
Andrew D. White, first president of Cornell University, was a bookish man -- a scholar who knew, loved and collected books. Though the university's founder, Ezra Cornell, was not bookish, he appreciated the value and necessity of assembling a proper library for the students and faculty of the university that was to bear his name.
Cornell astronomers, observing what they call "the most boring, average galaxy" they could find, have discovered some unusual mechanics: counter- rotating stars in a spiral galaxy.
