Acting on an anonymous tip, Cornell Police have charged two freshman students with reckless endangerment in connection with an April Fools' Day prank in which the students allegedly placed a dummy at the bottom of Cascadilla Gorge.
The Executive Committee of Cornell's Board of Trustees will hold a brief open session when it meets in Manhattan at 12:30 p.m., Thursday, April 17, at the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St.
Robert A. Brown, the dean of engineering and the Warren K. Lewis Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver the 10th annual Julian C. Smith Lectures in Chemical Engineering at Cornell on April 22 and April 24.
Cornell has established an Office of Distance Learning to explore ways to extend the boundaries of the university through the use of communication technologies.
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.
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.
