Singer-songwriter Sam Shaber starts new Willard Straight series, April 24

To kick off the Lauren Pickard '90 Emerging Artist Series at Cornell, the campus's Willard Straight Hall will be showcasing a rising star, Sam Shaber, who has been called "the soul of New York folk."

May 4 art show, auction, banquet and distinguished lecturer will help kick off Mental Health Month

The toll of mental illness is staggering, afflicting some 20 million Americans. The costs of schizophrenia alone are $33 billion a year, according to the National Association in Research in Schizophrenia and Depression.

Café Crunch is whey cool: chocolate-coated snack stick from Cornell wins $5,000 top prize in national dairy contest

Cornell food science students have developed a mocha-flavored, chocolate- coated snack that uses an unusual ingredient: whey. The students call their concoction Café Crunch, and the product has won the $5,000 top prize at the Dairy Management Inc.'s annual Discoveries in Dairy Ingredients contest.

'Conservation at Home' is theme of Zoo and Wildlife Society's special species symposium at Cornell, April 20-22

The Zoo and Wildlife Society at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine will present its sixth Special Species Symposium April 20 to 22 for veterinary students, technicians, and veterinarians.

Apollo 13 commander James Lovell to speak at Cornell April 16

James Lovell Jr., commander of the perilous Apollo 13 mission in 1970, will speak at Cornell April 16 at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall. In his talk, "Apollo 13: A Successful Failure," Lovell will share a behind-the-scenes account of what was to be the fifth U.S. mission to the moon.

Physicist to ponder fate of universe in Bethe lectures at Cornell

Wick Haxton, director of the National Institute for Nuclear Theory in Seattle, will discuss neutrinos -- nature's mysterious particles -- and the ultimate fate of the universe when he delivers three Hans A. Bethe lectures in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall at Cornell.

Cornell vice president describes environmental goals

Harold D. Craft Jr., vice president for administration and chief financial officer of Cornell University, today (April 11, 2001) released the text of a letter he has sent to Cornell students concerning the application of the Kyoto Protocol's environmental principles to the operation of the university. The letter follows:

Wireless browsing in class can hurt grades, especially in traditional classes, Cornell researchers find

Look, Professor, no wires! More and more colleges are installing wireless networking, so that a student sitting in a lecture hall, a classroom or even outside the building can pop open a laptop computer and connect to the Internet at high speed.

Israeli ambassador Alon Pinkas to speak at Cornell April 16 Counsel general of Israel will present talks in Goldwin Smith Hall in Hebrew and in English

On Monday, April 16, Ambassador Alon Pinkas, the Counsel General of Israel, will give two talks titled "The Middle East After Israeli Elections: Thoughts on the Past and Prospects for the Future" in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall.