Vice President Al Gore and Andrew Cuomo, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, paid a special visit to Amsterdam, N.Y., Sept. 30 to release a preliminary report on efforts to jump-start the historic barge canal region's stalled economy.
Three researchers associated with Cornell will testify before Congress Oct. 5 and 6 on the use of biotechnology in foods and agriculture. They are Charles J. Arntzen, president and chief executive of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc., located at Cornell.
Nine years of United Nations economic sanctions against Iraq have created genocidal conditions and should be eliminated, Denis Halliday, a former UN official, told a Cornell audience last week.
Cornell Cooperative Extension of New York City and the Police Athletic League (PAL) will host the first "Community Hydroponics Harvest Festival" on Tuesday, Oct. 5, at PAL's South Bronx Center, 991 Longwood Ave.
Author Alison Lurie's contribution to arts and letters will be celebrated with a Cornell Library exhibit that opens Oct. 7 with a video screening followed by a reception.
Members of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and Cornell University Council will arrive on campus Oct. 7, for Cornell's annual Trustee/Council Weekend.
Ring in the new! After a year of silence, the Cornell Chimes again are serenading East Hill. At 11 a.m. today (Thursday, Sept. 30), several Cornell chimesmasters played a few scales and short melodies from the new playing stand in McGraw Tower.
The Cornell Higher Education Research Institute is hosting its first higher education policy conference Oct. 15 and 16 on campus. All sessions are in the ILR Conference Center, rooms 105 and 120, and are open to the Cornell community.
The land that regularly sends human "snowbirds" to Florida could be sending real feathered friends to the United States this winter. An irruption of winter finches from Canada's north woods is expected to delight feeder-watchers to the south, according to bird experts at Cornell's Laboratory of Ornithology.
Mother Mallard, the world's first portable synthesizer ensemble, celebrates the 30th anniversary of its electronic debut at Cornell on Oct. 3, at 8 p.m. in the Proscenium Theatre of the Center for Theatre Arts.
