Karin Klapper '96 is named Raoul Wallenberg Scholar

Karin Klapper couldn't be happier. The Cornell senior has just learned that she will spend a year at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem as a Raoul Wallenberg Scholar.

Cornell Center for the Environment now headed by Walter R. Lynn

Walter R. Lynn, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell, has been named director of the university's Center for the Environment. A specialist in water-resources planning and a Senior Fellow in the center, Lynn follows James P. Lassoie, director of CfE since 1993.

Noted art critic Donald Kuspit to speak at Cornell on April 23

Art critic and historian Donald Kuspit will give a free and public lecture at Cornell on Tuesday, April 23, titled "Dialectics of Decadence: The Weight of History on Contemporary Art" at 5:15 p.m. in Room 115 of Tjaden Hall.

By way of Cornell's Mann Library, USDA statistics now can be on a new web site

To help students, faculty, growers and farmers prosper, Mann Library began providing Internet access to USDA statistical data from the Economic Research Service and the National Agricultural Statistical Service.

Former congressmen to debate federal government's role in the workplace April 18 in Washington, D.C.

Former congressmen Thomas Downey and Rod Chandler will debate the changing role of the federal government in the workplace in Washington, D.C. April 18. The debate, part of a half-day conference sponsored by Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and its Institute for Labor Market Policies.

Cornell's Johnson Museum receives $195,000 grant from Mellon Foundation

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell has been awarded a three-year $195,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Cornell's lake source cooling study continues with land and water testing

Researchers for Cornell's Lake Source Cooling project will be collecting information about the proposed land and lake routes over the next 10 days. The data collection is part of the scope of the environmental impact statement and permit applications required by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.

Orientation-on-demand thin films are developed by Cornell New technique paves the way for new materials for industrial

Cornell scientists have come up with a novel way to manipulate liquid crystal molecules so they self-assemble in a desired direction into a robust network, making them useful as a new material for a variety of applications in the computer, medical, automotive and aerospace industries.

No-interest state loan helps Cornell see the light Energy efficiency now a fixture across campus

Cornell has received an $890,940 interest-free loan from New York state to help refurbish and replace lighting with energy-efficient bulbs and fixtures across campus.