Is it a grungy gourd? Or is it a fake fruit? Cornell will find out in the great pumpkin contest

So what is actually sitting up there on the very tip of Cornell University's McGraw Tower? Is it a putrefied pumpkin, or is it a pulp fiction?

Troy Donahue is featured in Bye Bye Birdie at Cornell, Feb. 28

Troy Donahue, a American teen heartthrob from the '60s, will play Harry MacAfee, a father whose life is disrupted by teen idol Conrad Birdie, in the 1998 national tour of Bye Bye Birdie, at Cornell's Statler Auditorium on Feb. 28 at 8 p.m.

Three Cornell faculty members win 1998 Sloan Research Fellowships, giving support to scientists early in their careers

Three Cornell faculty members have been awarded Sloan Research Fellowships for 1998: Dong Lai, assistant professor of astronomy; Gregory Morrisett, assistant professor of computer science, and Michael J. Spivey-Knowlton, assistant professor of psychology.

D. Merrill Ewert is named to direct Cornell Cooperative Extension

D. Merrill Ewert, a faculty member in the Department of Education, has been named director of Cornell Cooperative Extension by the deans of the College of Human Ecology and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

Exhibit at Willard Straight Hall, Feb. 23-March 6, shows faces of AIDS

After stops at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., galleries in Boston, Charlotte, N.C., and Florence, Italy, and two weeks at Ithaca College's Handwerker Gallery, the artist Jason Dilley's startling exhibit on the faces and voices of AIDS, Project Face to Face, will open at the art gallery in Willard Straight Hall.

'Environment Appreciation Days' need volunteer help

Cornell students and other members of the Cornell community are needed to take part in 4-H's annual Environmental Appreciation Days, scheduled this year for May 1, 4 and 7.

Law professor's book honored as one of best scholarly works of 1997

A book by Gregory S. Alexander, Cornell professor of law, has been named one of the best scholarly works of 1997 by the Association of American Publishers. Alexander's Commodity and Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal.

Jane Mt. Pleasant is honored by national American Indian society

Jane Mt. Pleasant, director of the American Indian Program at Cornell, was presented with the highest honor of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society at the organization's national conference in Houston in November.

Proposals requested for 1998 community-project grants

The committee for the 1998 Robert S. Smith Award for community progress and innovation is calling for proposals from local community organizations and agencies. Proposals are due by April 15.