How should a home-based child-care provider set up a partnership, plan her liability insurance and more. These a few challenges facing an interdisciplinary team of 12 Cornell University students working as part of the new Cornell Small Children/Small Business Project.
The heavens are sharper than ever before to the Earth-bound watcher, thanks to astronomers at Cornell and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Cornell researchers have built an infrared camera for the California Institute of Technology's 200-inch Hale telescope.
In the immortal words of Yogi Berra, it's like déjà all over again. The New York Yankees and the New York Mets, now playing in each of their league's championship series, appear to have climatological history on their side.
Biologists and acoustic engineers based at Cornell will join researchers at two sites in Africa in a new program to monitor the numbers and health of forest elephants by eavesdropping on the sounds they make. New monitoring procedures will be tested in the Central African Republic.
Ghassan Hage, a cutting-edge figure in Australia's influential cultural criticism and the arts movement, will deliver a University Lecture Friday, Oct. 22, at 4:40 p.m. in Kaufmann Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall .
National Book Award winner Tim O'Brien will deliver an inaugural reading for the newly endowed James McConkey Reading Series, Friday, Oct. 22, at 8 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, on campus.
Licensed veterinary technicians will be in the spotlight at Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine during National Veterinary Technician Week, Oct. 10-16. The celebration includes educational games for children visiting the college's teaching hospital, as well as a series of lectures for veterinary students.
Every day, more and more information is available worldwide in digital form. Cornell is holding a meeting to explore the future of digital libraries, from Oct. 17-19. The conference is the first of eight to be held over the next four years.
Michael Malin, a world- renowned geomorphologist and Mars expert, will present a talk at Cornell Oct. 13 on the latest discoveries made by the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft. Malin's talk, hosted by the Cornell astronomy department.
