Cornell author's book on Salzburg Festival garners top Austrian prize

A book linking the world-renowned Salzburg Music Festival with Austria's current political flirtation with the right wing has won a top prize in Austria. Cornell professor of history Michael Steinberg's book Austria as Theater and Ideology.

Robert Wright, NBC leader, is this year's Hatfield speaker Nov. 9

NBC's Robert C. Wright will deliver this year's Hatfield address at Cornell University on Thursday, Nov. 9, at 4:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall.

Cornell physicist awarded NSF grant to find faster way to determine shape of protein molecule

When a beam of X-rays is fired through a crystallized protein sample, the beam is scattered into a pattern that depends on the arrangement of atoms in the crystal. By decoding that pattern, experts can find the arrangement of the atoms and the shape of the protein molecule.

Cornell to provide university-funded health insurance for majority of its graduate students

For the first time, Cornell University will provide university-funded health insurance for the majority of its graduate students. The Cornell Board of Trustees at its regular meeting Oct. 28 approved the recommendation.

Carol Nolan '73 of Glaxo SmithKline to deliver Thorpe Lecture Nov. 2

Carol L. Nolan, director of biopharmaceutical technical operations for Glaxo SmithKline, the multinational pharmaceutical concern, and a 1973 Cornell University alumna, will be on campus Nov. 2, to deliver the seventh annual Raymond G. Thorpe Lecture.

Founder of Southern Poverty Law Center is keynote speaker at Cornell event

Morris Dees, founder and director of the Southern Poverty Law Center and a noted fighter against violent hate groups, will deliver the keynote address for a conference on religion and human rights Wednesday, Nov. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Sage Chapel.

As winters grow warmer, Cornell ornithologists recruit 15,000 birdwatchers to document avian whereabouts

After analyzing data from 1999-2000, the warmest winter in 105 years, researchers at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology are looking to a continent-wide network of volunteers to answer the question: Where will North American birds turn up next?

New York City evaluation of Cornell parent-education HIV program shows awareness of AIDS can help prevention

A Cornell parent-education program has shown it can triple the likelihood that parents will discuss risk reduction and related information about HIV, the AIDS virus, with their children. The program also significantly increases the likelihood that the parents themselves will make personal risk behavior changes and obtain HIV testing.

Surgery to prevent strokes ends in death more often when performed by most experienced surgeons, Cornell study reports

A surgical procedure to prevent strokes, involving the removal of plaque from the carotid artery, has a greater chance of ending in the death of the patient when the surgery is performed by surgeons who have been in practice the longest, according to a new Cornell study.