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.
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.
A large, multiethnic Cornell study has found that single motherhood does not necessarily compromise how well prepared six- and seven-year-olds are for school.
To examine the forces working against tomorrow's young farmers in today's changing world and the problems of domestic food security, Cornell will be a viewing site for the 16th annual World Food Day teleconference.
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.
