Janet Reno, the nation's first female attorney general, will address Cornell's convocation for graduating students and their families May 26 during the university's commencement weekend.
Taking precautions to ensure that the cloven-hoofed animals at Cornell remain safe from foot-and-mouth disease, the Department of Animal Science has implemented a ban on guest visits to two animal research facilities.
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.
A replica trolley-bus was unveiled to the media and several local dignitaries in a ceremony at the Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit facility today. The trolley will be on public display in "bank alley" on the Ithaca Commons, Saturday, April 7, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Nora de Cortiñas and Margarita Peralta de Gropper, founders of the Madres of Plaza de Mayo -- also known as the "Mothers of the Disappeared" -- will give their personal accounts of the movement during a talk on campus.
Four internationally acclaimed architects who are finalists in an invited architecture design competition for Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning will present their proposals for a $25 million building project to a selection jury of prominent architects and the campus community.
Diversity in engineering is not just about fairness, but about creativity, according to Wm. [William] A. Wulf, president of the National Academy of Engineering, who will visit the Cornell campus to deliver two lectures on April 11 and 12.
More than just dust was kicked up when NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous spacecraft, NEAR Shoemaker, made a successful landing on asteroid 433 Eros on Feb. 12. Also disturbed were the memories of an experiment carried out more than three decades ago by a student of Thomas Gold, professor emeritus of astronomy at Cornell.
Does the Amazon River basin thrive with more tree biomass than that along the shores of Opeongo Lake in Canada's Algonquin Provincial Park? Is the Congo Basin more tree biomass-rich than the Argonne Forest in northeastern France?
