Singaporean ambassador to the United States and Cornell alumna Heng-Chee Chan will give a talk titled "Southeast Asia: Facing the Next Century" at Cornell's Southeast Asia Program's brown bag lunch series.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- A United Nations statute to establish the first permanent International Criminal Court (ICC) received overwhelmingly enthusiastic support from U.N. diplomats convening last summer in Rome and may become international law by the year 2001. An ambitious and timely symposium examining how the new court will work will be held at the Cornell Law School Friday and Saturday, March 5 and 6. Titled "The International Criminal Court: Consensus and Debate on the International Adjudication of Genocide, Crimes against Humanity, War Crimes and Aggression," the forum will take place in the MacDonald Moot Court Room in Myron Taylor Hall. It is being hosted by the Cornell International Law Journal, a student publication, which plans to publish the proceedings in its next issue.
Former Israeli prime minister and Nobel Prize winner Shimon Peres has canceled his scheduled March 17 visit to Cornell due to a political emergency in Israel.
Middle school students put themselves at risk for musculoskeletal problems when they work at a computer keyboard on a desktop instead of from an adjustable computer tray, according to a new Cornell study.
James B. Maas, professor of psychology at Cornell will answer American's questions about healthy sleep and sleep problems when he participates in a toll-free 'USA Today' National Sleep Foundation "Sleep Hotline."
Cornell graduate students in the Department of Science and Technology Studies will host a conference on "Technology and Identity" April 16-18 in Hans Bethe Auditorium, Clark Hall.
Materials science at Cornell is about nanocomposites, thin films on glass and energetic beams deposition. But it is also about students and teachers and families learning the basics of science and technology together.
Cornell paleontologists are enlisting the public's help in the search for some unusual 375 million-year-old fossils in upstate New York and northern Pennsylvania.
The Cornell Public Service Leadership Fellows program will sponsor its fifth annual campuswide leadership conference at Willard Straight Hall, Sunday, Feb. 28.
Thanks to soaring prices, academic agricultural and biological journals, which for 200 years have been crucial to providing information on advances in biology, food production, plant diseases and animal science.
F.W. de Klerk, South Africa's last president under the system of apartheid and recipient of a 1993 Nobel Prize, will give a public lecture in Newman Arena in the Field House at Cornell.
