Seventeen cinematic works and the filmmakers behind them will explore humanity's role in the natural world during the Cornell Environmental Film Festival 2000, scheduled for Oct. 13-19 at Cornell.
Tuition at private colleges and universities has never been higher. It is also likely to keep on going up. With combined tuition, fees, room, board and expenses at the best institutions topping the high-water mark of $30,000 a year and rising, many students cannot attend these institutions without substantial help.
A scientific symposium focusing on genetics and immunology is planned Oct. 9, as part of the 50th anniversary observances at the James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell.
Computer programs that can adapt to changing conditions — both in the virtual worlds they are creating and the hardware on which they are running — will be developed under a $5 million project funded as part of the $90 million Information Technology Research initiative of the National Science Foundation.
The Latino Studies Program at Cornell University has a new director and, for the first time in its history, an associate director as well. Philip Lewis, the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, has appointed two faculty members.
Noted biomedical researcher Dr. Richard A. Lerner, president of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif., will give The Class of 1942 James B. Sumner Lecture Thursday, Sept. 14, and Friday, Sept. 15, on the Cornell campus.
The Dwyer Dam Bridge at the entrance to the Cornell University campus on Hoy Road, near the intersection with Route 366, will be closed from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 9.
Want to crack cryptography? Do you crave secret codes? If you want to figure out fractals or if you enjoy the connection between math and art, then consider joining the Cornell Math Explorers Club.
The Executive Committee of the Cornell University Board of Trustees today approved the creation of a university-owned and financed, for-profit corporation, to be known as "eCornell."
About 11 months after the start of an El Niño event in the equatorial Pacific, hospitals thousands of miles away in Bangladesh can expect a surge of cholera cases, according to the first mathematical model to link climatic cycles with subsequent cholera outbreaks.
Dispelling widely held myths about various ethnic groups' tolerance of crowding, a new Cornell University study finds that Asian Americans and Latin Americans are just as uncomfortable in crowded homes as are Anglo Americans (Americans of European descent) and African Americans.
Who is the rightful parent of a test-tube baby? How should a physician honor a patient's right to die? Does the use of stem cells from human embryos in life-saving research violate a congressional ban? Should there be such a ban?
