The Cornell Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers this weekend will finish construction on a pedestrian/bicycle bridge over Cascadilla Creek to link the Ithaca Sciencenter and the Tompkins County Cornell Cooperative Extension office, adjacent to Route 13.
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Pierre-Gilles de Gennes will speak on "Novel Schemes for Artificial Muscle" when he delivers a Gemant Lecture on Monday, May 5, at 3:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, at Cornell.
An "education vacation" in the islands -- the Gulf of Maine's Isles of Shoals, in particular -- is offered to adults taking non-credit courses this summer at Shoals Marine Laboratory. Weekend and five-day courses are scheduled on Appledore Island by Cornell and the University of New Hampshire, which jointly operate Shoals Marine Laboratory.
Cornell's alumni body recently elected Judith C. Areen and Samuel C. Fleming to four-year terms on the Cornell Board of Trustees. They succeed Eleanor S. Applewhaite and J. Thomas Clark on the board effective July 1. Applewhaite and Clark are completing four-year terms as alumni elected trustees.
A recent Cornell graduate and a current junior, both from the College of Arts and Sciences, have just received major national awards: the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies and the Beinecke Brothers Memorial Scholarship.
Vera Bauer Palmer from Niagara Falls, N.Y., a Cornell graduate student in the Department of English, has received a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for Minorities. Bauer.
Peter Galbraith, the U.S. ambassador to Croatia, will discuss the successes and failures of the negotiated peace in the former Yugoslavia in a keynote address during "Making Peace Agreements Work," a two-day symposium beginning Friday, April 25, at the Cornell Law School.
Charles J. Whalen, senior economist with the Institute of Industry Studies at Cornell, is scheduled to testify before the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs on April 23 in Washington, D.C., in support of establishing a two-year budget and appropriations cycle for the U.S. government.
