Vice President Al Gore and Andrew Cuomo, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, paid a special visit to Amsterdam, N.Y., Sept. 30 to release a preliminary report on efforts to jump-start the historic barge canal region's stalled economy.
Members of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and Cornell University Council will arrive on campus Oct. 7, for Cornell's annual Trustee/Council Weekend.
The Cornell Higher Education Research Institute is hosting its first higher education policy conference Oct. 15 and 16 on campus. All sessions are in the ILR Conference Center, rooms 105 and 120, and are open to the Cornell community.
The land that regularly sends human "snowbirds" to Florida could be sending real feathered friends to the United States this winter. An irruption of winter finches from Canada's north woods is expected to delight feeder-watchers to the south, according to bird experts at Cornell's Laboratory of Ornithology.
Mother Mallard, the world's first portable synthesizer ensemble, celebrates the 30th anniversary of its electronic debut at Cornell on Oct. 3, at 8 p.m. in the Proscenium Theatre of the Center for Theatre Arts.
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.