Horticulturists, authors and landscape designers - plus one ecologist, one mycologist and one literary critic - are in the lineup for the Fall '99 Cornell Plantations Seminar Series with 10 Wednesday evening lectures, starting Sept. 8 at Cornell.
The good news is that all the roads on Cornell's campus - including those that have been closed for construction for most of the summer - will be open Friday (Aug. 20). The bad news is those roads will be clogged with thousands of cars as some 3,200 new students arrive.
To display the accomplishments of "3Rs (reduce, reuse and recycle) Center for Waste Prevention," a prototype waste-management program, Cornell University Cooperative Extension of New York City and the Cornell Waste Management Institute will hold a summer fair.
Tcat is gearing up for its Aug. 22 service introduction by helping local riders plan for the adjustments that may lay ahead for them. Some riders will notice little change in their routine, while others may find that they'll be riding a different route number at a different time
Believe it or not, there are some problems computers just can't solve - at least not quickly enough to be of any use. Many of them are of the type computer scientists call "combinatorial" in which the computer has to try out a vast number of different combinations.
Barbara Hope Cooper, the first woman to be appointed a professor of physics at Cornell University, died Aug. 7 at Cayuga Medical Center here. She was 45.
John Andrew "Andy" Noel Jr., Cornell University's associate director of athletics, has been named by the university to succeed Charles Moore as director of athletics and physical education. (August 10, 1999)
Does Mars have shifting sands? Over the past few months the camera on board the Mars Global Surveyor has provided tantalizing evidence of surface changes on the planet as sand dunes that cover large areas show signs of being moved by the Martian wind.
Reservations are being accepted for the Fourth Biannual Beef Producers Tour, Sept. 29--Oct. 2. The tour, presented by Cornell Cooperative Extension, will explore the beef industry of Canada's province of Ontario.
Only hungry babies and grown-up biologists worry whether there are enough mammary glands to go around. Naked mole-rat mothers don't worry. Even when a female produces more than two dozen pups.
Saturday, Aug. 14, at 1:30 p.m., Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (Tcat) staff will be on hand at Titus Towers in downtown Ithaca to demonstrate a wheelchair-lift-equipped bus.
