Briefs: Alumni trustee nominees: The Cornell Alumni Federation's Committee on Alumni Trustee Nominations has endorsed and nominated four candidates to run for election in 2000 for two seats as alumni trustees on the Cornell Board of Trustees.
In January and February, Cornell Cinema bares all with "The Male Body: Screenings and Preenings," a series of six films celebrating the masculine form on screen.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings announced Jan. 3 that he will recommend to the Cornell Board of Trustees the appointment of Harold D. Craft Jr. as vice president for administration and chief financial officer, effective Feb. 1.
The Delta 2 launch vehicle sits on the pad, belching smoke -- then you see it as it lifts into space. Next comes an intimate view of the separation of the solid rocket motors, two minutes into flight, then the separation of the first stage followed by the second-stage ignition.
David Feldshuh, Cornell professor of theatre, film and dance and artistic director of the university's Center for Theatre Arts (CTA), will launch the popular 'Mind and Memory' lecture series Monday, Jan. 24, from 2:55 to 4:10 p.m. in Uris Auditorium.
In an extraordinary partnership with NASA, the Akwe:kon (ah-GWAY-go) Press at Cornell University published a double issue of its award-winning journal, Native Americas, titled "Global Warming, Climate Change and Native Lands."
Low-carbohydrate, high-protein diets may trigger a quick weight loss, but it's only temporary and largely due to water loss, not body fat. Such a diet on a long-term basis also would probably promote chronic diseases.
The Supreme Court unexpectedly issued a decision today that is a virtual death sentence for petitioner Lonnie Weeks. The ruling is directly contradicted by the findings of a study at Cornell University Law School.
Concerned that changes in climate and landscape are affecting birds in North America, scientists at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society are asking volunteers across the continent to log on Feb. 18-21.
Cornell scientists are enlisting the help of schoolchildren to analyze tons of stuff that surrounded skeletons of the Chemung mastodons, the two extinct elephant-like creatures that died near the present-day Watkins Glen , N.Y.
Robert Rathbun Wilson, the experimental physicist who designed some of the world's most powerful particle accelerators used to study the fundamental nature of matter, died Jan. 16 at home in Ithaca.
ATLANTA -- Something really shocking is going on in a microquasar, or black hole, dubbed "Old Faithful," some 40,000 light years from Earth. It seems to be behaving like a giant particle collider, with massive shock waves generating eruptions every 45 to 90 minutes. This is the second time that Old Faithful, the first known microquasar in our galaxy, the Milky Way, has been observed to be acting strangely. Two years ago astronomers presented evidence, from X-ray and infrared observations, that the microquasar is sending out jets of hot gas at close to regular half-hour intervals.
