The 2001 James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony at Cornell will be awarded to the Cornell Interactive Theatre Ensemble. The award, carrying a $5,000 cash prize, was created and endowed seven years ago by Cornell alumnus and trustee Thomas W. Jones.
A collaborative workshop drawing from the disciplines of art, science, and computing will be held April 20 and 21 to launch Cornell Library's sponsorship of the Internet art journal Ctheory Multimedia , a semi-annual collection of electronic art and theory to be published this spring.
Three Cornell undergraduates, all juniors in the College of Arts and Sciences, are winners of the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for science and mathematics.
Celebrated poet Ruth Stone will read from her works at Cornell for the Creative Writing Program's biannual Chasen Poetry Reading Thursday, April 19, at 4 p.m. in the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall.
Robert S. Langer, chairman of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's science board, the federal agency's highest advisory panel, will deliver the 2001 Julian C. Smith Lectures in the School of Chemical Engineering at Cornell Monday, April 23, and Tuesday, April 24.
It's a student takeover of the most welcome variety -- the annual fete called Hotel Ezra Cornell on the Cornell campus. On Friday, April 20, Statler Hotel managers will hand over the ceremonial key to the on-campus facility to directors, and for the rest of the weekend all hotel services and events will be handled by more than 400 student.
Cornell graduates Harold O. Levy, '74, '79 JD, and Randi Weingarten, '80, are more accustomed to meeting over bargaining tables than dinner tables. But on April 19, these two distinguished alumni -- and friends -- will meet as guests of honor at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
Cornell food science students have developed a mocha-flavored, chocolate- coated snack that uses an unusual ingredient: whey. The students call their concoction Café Crunch, and the product has won the $5,000 top prize at the Dairy Management Inc.'s annual Discoveries in Dairy Ingredients contest.
To kick off the Lauren Pickard '90 Emerging Artist Series at Cornell, the campus's Willard Straight Hall will be showcasing a rising star, Sam Shaber, who has been called "the soul of New York folk."
