Recycle Ithaca's Bicycles (RIBs) urgently needs volunteers

Recycle Ithaca's Bicycles, Southside Community Center's bicycle program, urgently needs volunteers on a regular basis to work two to six hours weekly, both from home or on-site at its new home on South Corn Street.

Historian of the American West to give three lectures at Cornell

Patricia Nelson Limerick, a professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder and one of the pioneers of the trend known as "New Western History," will deliver three Carl Becker Lectures at Cornell March 31 through April 2. She will deliver the lectures, which are free and open to the public.

Award-Winning Human Ecology Mentor Program helps new Cornell students through transition

Before Uyen Nguyen ever got to Cornell last fall, an upperclassman wrote to welcome her to campus and say he'd be her mentor during her first year here. "It's easy to feel lost here because Cornell is such a big university, but having a mentor made me feel like I belonged, that people actually cared about me," said Nguyen.

Seminar focuses on social work in managed care environment

With more than 42 million people enrolled in managed care programs, social workers and other human service professionals have become increasingly concerned about ethical dilemmas and issues related to client advocacy, access, regulation and consumer protection.

Cornell Plantations seeks return of uprooted plants, garden plaque

Cornell Plantations officials are asking for the return of about a dozen yucca plants stolen from a site on Judd Falls Road and a bronze plaque that is missing from the Mary Rockwell Azalea Garden on Tower Road.

Cornell engineering expert to present study on manure management in York, N.Y., on March 24

In a 20-mile radius of York, N.Y., more than 30,000 dairy cows on 100 farms produce as much sludge as 1.5 million people. But with the help of Cornell agricultural engineers, the community literally may soon clear the air.

Two architectural innovators will present four lectures at Cornell this month

Rem Koolhaas and Bernard Tschumi, two influential architects who have made their marks designing urban parks and cities, will deliver the 1997 Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lectures at Cornell.

Bioengineering is topic for Cornell Society of Engineers annual conference April 10-12

The biological applications of engineering, or bioengineering, is the topic of the 1997 Cornell Society of Engineers annual conference April 10-12 at Cornell.

Cornell chemist Jack Freed receives APS award

Jack H. Freed, Cornell professor of chemistry, has been awarded the 1997 Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics by the American Physical Society.