Trying to cope with red flashing lights on green moving objects, the human visual system is tricked into revealing where yellow -- and all other colors -- apparently are composed: in the visual cortex of the brain.
Lt. Col. Oliver L. North will give a free and public lecture at Cornell on Monday, April 14, at 8 p.m. in Statler Hall Auditorium. Titled "The New Conservative Covenant."
Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, one of the key architects of a radically changing NATO, will give a free and public lecture titled "A New NATO, A New Europe" at Cornell on April 24.
After a two-year search, Peter M. Siegel has been named director of Cornell University Network and Computing Systems. Siegel, who has been executive director and director of corporate partnership for Cornell's Center for Theory and Simulation in Science and Engineering.
Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit General Manager Rod Ghearing has announced the introduction of the Cornell--Downtown Shuttle to complement Tcat's existing city bus service. The new Route 10 will provide express service between the Cornell campus and downtown Ithaca every 10 minutes.
Cornell students, including members of fraternities and sororities, and Collegetown residents will clean up the streets of Collegetown on Saturday, April 19.
Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur will give a poetry reading Thursday, April 10, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall at Cornell.
Abby Joseph Cohen, managing director and co-chair of the Investment Policy Committee of Goldman, Sachs & Co., will deliver the 1997 Durland Lecture on Wednesday, April 9.
