Carl A. Kroch, a legendary bookseller who was a foremost benefactor of Cornell University, died March 6 of natural causes at his home in Chicago. He was 84.
To understand the collision of continents and to better monitor the birth of earthquakes, Cornell geologists have been awarded a $400,000 grant by the National Science Foundation.
Joel S. Milner, director of the Center for the Study of Family Violence and Sexual Assault at Northern Illinois University, will give two presentations at Cornell on March 16.
The President's Council of Cornell Women (PCCW) at Cornell will focus on the undergraduate experience at its annual spring meeting on campus March 12-14.
The Cornell chapter of the National Lawyers Guild is hosting a lecture by former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Clark will speak in the Anabel Taylor Hall Auditorium.
The Cornell International Institute for Food, Agriculture and Development will present two lectures March 15 and 30 on the topic "Agriculture in the 21st Century: What Can We Expect?"
Iris Morales, former minister of information for the Young Lords Party, a New York-based Puerto Rican political/social action group, will discuss the importance of the Young Lords philosophies and show her documentary.
The Cornell Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca March 11 and 12. The board will meet from 9 a.m. to 11:45 p.m. and again from 2 to 4 p.m. Friday, March 12, in the Trustee Meeting Room of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.
Colleges and universities across the nation this month are submitting comments on the draft collegiate code of conduct that seeks to eliminate "sweatshops" by establishing safe and humane working conditions.
When the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology's popular course "Spring Field Ornithology" convenes March 24, the instructor-of-record will be Stephen W. Kress.
Due to bad weather conditions both here and in Washington, D.C., a talk by Heng-Chee Chan, the Singaporean ambassador to the United States, is canceled.
