The Cornell Political Forum is sponsoring 'Governing Divided Communities,' Thursday, Oct. 4, a discussion featuring James Perkins Jr., mayor of Selma, Ala., and Alan Cohen, mayor of Ithaca.
Astronomer Joe Veverka, chair of Cornell's Department of Astronomy, will celebrate his 60th birthday with a unique gift from his colleagues: a symposium, "Exploration of the Universe," to be held Oct. 4-6 on campus.
When hundreds of search-and-rescue dogs and their handlers showed up at the site of the Sept. 11 World Trade Center collapse, not far behind were teams of veterinarians and veterinary technicians.
The fact that thousands of capable minority students miss out on careers in engineering is a 'massive brain drain,' says John Brooks Slaughter, a former director of the National Science Foundation and now president and chief executive officer of the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering.
Shibley Telhami, well known expert on Arab-Israeli relations, will be guest speaker at the Peace Studies Program's lunchtime seminar Thursday, Oct. 4, at 12:15 p.m. in G-08 Uris Hall.
This Saturday, Sept. 29, more than 500 Cornell students will be volunteering in the greater Ithaca area for the 10th annual Into the Streets day of public service.
The first detailed global mapping of an asteroid has found that most of the larger rocks strewn across the body were ejected from a single crater in a meteorite collision perhaps a billion years ago.
While the threat of terrorism will radically alter travel and tourism, the industry is likely to bounce back sooner, and smarter, than some have predicted - with the added benefit of people just being nicer to each other for a long time to come.
An interdisciplinary symposium, 'Landscapes: Sublime/Popular/Ruined/Surreal,' is being held on the Cornell University campus Friday, Sept. 28, and Saturday, Sept. 29.
Larry D. Brown, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences at Cornell, will receive the Chinese government's 2001 Friendship Award during celebrations of the 52nd anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Sept. 27-Oct. 2.
Duncan Hilchey, agricultural development specialist with Cornell's Farming Alternatives Program, will deliver the keynote address, 'Hops and Terroir: A Sense of Place, A Sense of Community,' at the Northeast Hops Alliance Dinner.
