A live broadcast of the upcoming reading by author Salman Rushdie will be available on a first-come, first-served basis Thursday, Oct. 18, at 8 p.m. in 233 Plant Science Building. (Oct. 10, 2007)
It's not every day that mathematicians and fiction writers invite each other to their respective department colloquia. But math, says author David Leavitt, is at its heart an art form. (Oct. 10, 2007)
Oswald Mathias (O.M.) Ungers, an inspirational educator and influential architect who brought international recognition to Cornell's Department of Architecture as its chair from 1969-75, died Sept. 30 in Germany. (Oct. 10, 2007)
Mosaic@Atlanta, a conference of Asian-American, African-American, Hispanic and Native American Cornell alumni, faculty, students and staff, was held Sept. 28 in Atlanta. (Oct. 10, 2007)
'Bridging Worlds' -- the theme of the His Holiness the Dalai Lama's three public talks in Ithaca -- is more than a concept for Cornell organizers and volunteers involved with these events. (Oct. 10, 2007)
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism told an audience of about 5,000 people in Barton Hall Oct. 9 that world peace begins with individuals finding their own inner peace. (Oct. 9, 2007)
The Dalai Lama stops at Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on Oct. 9 to bless two mandalas created by Tibetan Buddhist monks of the Namgyal Monastery. (Oct. 9, 2007)
Brian Wansink, professor of marketing and of applied economics at Cornell, won a 2007 Ig Nobel Award for research that showed people ate 73 percent more from bottomless bowls of soup. (Oct. 9, 2007)
Alumni Michael W.N. Chiu, Glenn T. Dallas, Robert B. Goldfarb, Barbara Hirsch Kaplan, Grace E. Richardson and W. Barlow Ware have received Rhodes awards. (Oct. 9, 2007)
"The Pond Guidebook," a new Cornell Cooperative Extension booklet, is full of advice for pond owners in the Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. (Oct. 9, 2007)
Cornell engineers say they developed a microvascular system that can nourish growing tissues, a step that may one day allow laboratories to grow synthetically engineered tissues for transplants. (Oct. 5, 2007)
