Julie Margolin, the daughter of Yonkers residents Barbara and Arthur Margolin in Westchester County, is the top winner of the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration's prestigious 1999 Drown Prize.
Lani Guinier, Houston Baker and Stanley Fish are among more than a dozen prominent guest speakers who will present public talks as part of the 1999 summer session of the School of Criticism and Theory.
From the mountains of West Virginia to the shores of the northern Chesapeake Bay, drought conditions grip the middle Atlantic states. According to climate statistics released today, the drought shows signs of worsening, according to climatologists at the Northeast Regional Climate Center.
The President's Council of Cornell Women (PCCW), an alumnae group that serves as an advisory council to the university's president, has awarded its 1999 research grants to four women faculty members and six graduate students.
For the ravenous viburnum leaf beetle, a relentless southern march continues. The beetle (Pyrrhalta viburni) was found in the Ithaca and surrounding areas late last month by a Cornell University entomologist.
Old friends, familiar haunts and updated memories await more than 5,500 Cornell University alumni and guests returning to campus for the university's Reunion 1999 weekend, June 10-13.
More than 80 percent of America's seniors say they want to remain at home as they age. Their degree of independence, however, depends largely on their community's features and services.
PHILADELPHIA -- In a plenary address June 7 at the Keep America Growing Conference at the Adam's Mark Hotel, Charles C. Geisler, a Cornell University professor of rural sociology, will outline the crisis of disappearing small farms in a talk, "Working Lands and Working People: Coupling Smart Growth with Smart Ownership."
The hidden poles of the moon have been revealed by Cornell's and Jet Propulsion Laboratory researchers working with the radar antennas of NASA's Deep Space Network at Goldstone, Calif.
The Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), one of the world's leading centers for X-ray research in biology and materials science, is building a major addition that will provide a quantum leap in its capabilities.
Frank H.T. Rhodes, professor of geological sciences and president emeritus at Cornell University, has been elected president of the American Philosophical Society (APS) for a three-year term.
