James Lovell Jr., commander of the perilous Apollo 13 mission in 1970, will speak at Cornell April 16 at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall. In his talk, "Apollo 13: A Successful Failure," Lovell will share a behind-the-scenes account of what was to be the fifth U.S. mission to the moon.
Wick Haxton, director of the National Institute for Nuclear Theory in Seattle, will discuss neutrinos -- nature's mysterious particles -- and the ultimate fate of the universe when he delivers three Hans A. Bethe lectures in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall at Cornell.
Look, Professor, no wires! More and more colleges are installing wireless networking, so that a student sitting in a lecture hall, a classroom or even outside the building can pop open a laptop computer and connect to the Internet at high speed.
Taking precautions to ensure that the cloven-hoofed animals at Cornell remain safe from foot-and-mouth disease, the Department of Animal Science has implemented a ban on guest visits to two animal research facilities.
On Monday, April 16, Ambassador Alon Pinkas, the Counsel General of Israel, will give two talks titled "The Middle East After Israeli Elections: Thoughts on the Past and Prospects for the Future" in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall.
"Human Natures: Genes, Culture and the Human Prospect" is the topic for Stanford University biologist Paul R. Ehrlich in a public lecture Wednesday, April 25, at 4:45 p.m. in Cornell's Call Alumni Auditorium in Kennedy Hall.
Janet Reno, the nation's first female attorney general, will address Cornell's convocation for graduating students and their families May 26 during the university's commencement weekend.
A replica trolley-bus was unveiled to the media and several local dignitaries in a ceremony at the Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit facility today. The trolley will be on public display in "bank alley" on the Ithaca Commons, Saturday, April 7, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Nora de Cortiñas and Margarita Peralta de Gropper, founders of the Madres of Plaza de Mayo -- also known as the "Mothers of the Disappeared" -- will give their personal accounts of the movement during a talk on campus.
