The land that regularly sends human "snowbirds" to Florida could be sending real feathered friends to the United States this winter. An irruption of winter finches from Canada's north woods is expected to delight feeder-watchers to the south, according to bird experts at Cornell's Laboratory of Ornithology.
Cornell's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology will hold a symposium Oct. 1 in memory of Franklin A. Long, professor emeritus of chemistry and the university's vice president for research and advanced studies from 1963 to 1969, who died Feb. 8.
Saul A. Teukolsky, the Hans A. Bethe Professor in Physics and Astrophysics at Cornell, has been named director of the Center for Radiophysics and Space Research one of the two research centers of the Cornell astronomy department.
When the going gets toxic, the hungry get clever - very quickly - say biologists from Cornell and Germany's Max Planck Institute für Limnology whose study of tough times in a German lake has shown that rapid evolution can influence the environmental effects of pollution.
Young people who participate in New York state 4-H clubs do better in school, are more motivated to help others and achieve more than other kids who both do and do not participate in other kinds of group programs and clubs, according to a two-year Cornell study.
To show how extension activities help individuals and enterprises to thrive in agricultural ventures and food systems, Cornell Cooperative Extension invites the public to its Celebration Day, Tuesday, Oct. 5.
Nat Hentoff, award-winning author and syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, will discuss "Free Speech at Cornell and Other Centers of Higher Learning" at Cornell on Oct. 5, at 5 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall.
Historian Michael Kammen's two most recent books are a rare and impressive display of vocation and avocation fulfilled in service to history and to art.
