Cornell has completed field investigations and evaluated options for cleaning up its former low-level radiation disposal site in the town of Lansing, north of Tompkins County Airport. The proposed cleanup plan for the site, plus alternatives that were considered, will be described at a public meeting Thursday, April 26, at 7 p.m. in DeWitt Middle School, Warren Road.
The state of New York, through its New York State Office of Science, Technology and Academic Research, has awarded Cornell University $2.8 million over two years to establish a new Center for Advanced Technology.
Phillip V. Tobias, one of the world's leading experts on human ancestors, will give a public talk about his experiences in the field, "Eureka Moments in My Career," Thursday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the Morrison Room (A106) of Corson Hall.
Two members of the Cornell faculty have been selected to receive Sloan Foundation Research Fellowships, the Sloan Foundation has announced. They are Yuri Berest, assistant professor of mathematics, and Christiane Linster, assistant professor of neurobiology and behavior.
Dan Kindlon, 1981 Cornell Ph.D. and co-author of the best-selling book Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys, will give a talk on the Cornell campus at noon Monday, April 23, in the Faculty Commons of Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.
Vicious videos, a subculture of adolescent terrorism and myths about adolescence. These are a few of the factors that contributed to the tragic Columbine shootings on April 20 two years ago. On this anniversary, we have lessons to learn from those devastating shootings, says adolescent violence expert James Garbarino at Cornell.
The Executive Committee of the Cornell Board of Trustees will hold a brief open session when it meets in Manhattan on April 19, at 11:30 a.m. at the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St.
Lee Teng-hui, former president of Taiwan, is planning to travel to Cornell, where he earned his Ph.D. in agricultural economics in 1968, on a personal visit in early May to see his granddaughter, a Cornell student, and to meet with students and faculty at his alma mater. Lee's visit to Cornell is planned for May 2-4. No public speeches or events are anticipated.
Warren Rudman, former U.S. senator from New Hampshire, will deliver the inaugural Ben and Rhoda Belnick Fund for Government Studies Lecture Thursday, April 26, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall at Cornell.
