Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit has been briefing drivers, employees and outlets for a systemwide fare change that will go into effect Monday, June 7.
Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have discovered an enormous cyclonic storm system raging in the northern polar regions of the planet Mars. Nearly four times the size of the state of Texas, the storm is composed of water-ice clouds like storm systems on Earth, rather than dust typically found in Martian storms.
For the first time in history, humanity will send a sundial to another planet. Inscribed with the motto "Two Worlds, One Sun," the sundial will travel to Mars aboard NASA's Mars Surveyor 2001 lander.
The Cornell Political Forum's quarterly magazine, a nonpartisan political journal produced by undergraduate students, has been honored with a Silver Crown Award by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
The fifth annual James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony at Cornell was awarded to the campus Multicultural Living Learning Unit at a ceremony April 7 in Willard Straight Hall.
The annual reception of the Community Partnership Board, a program of the Cornell Public Service Center, will be Wednesday, April 14, at 5 p.m. in the Corson-Mudd Hall atrium.
F. Sherwood Rowland, will inaugurate the Jill and Ken Iscol Distinguished Environmental Lectureship at Cornell April 20 and 21 with lectures on science and public policy.
William Sanders, who is honored April 15, as Cornell's 1999 Entrepreneur of the Year for his accomplishments. Sanders also will deliver the Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year address Friday, April 16, at 2:30 p.m. in Sage Hall, Room B-08.
