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Alumni return to campus for Cornell Reunion 1999, June 10-13

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.

Booklet helps assess how 'liveable' a community is for older people

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.

Crisis of disappearing U.S. farmers is outlined by Cornell researcher at Keep America Growing Conference

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."

Radar provides first 3-D views of moon's frigid poles, indicating sites for ice deposits, say Cornell astronomers

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.

Major addition will give Cornell's high-energy X-ray facility a quantum leap in on-campus research

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.

Saturday garden tours offered by Cornell Plantations

Now through September, Cornell Plantations is offering free guided tours through the botanical garden area Saturday afternoons.

Frank H.T. Rhodes, president emeritus of Cornell, is elected president of the American Philosophical Society

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.

New book re-evaluates French treatment of Jewish refugees during the Nazi era

When the Nazis seized power in Germany in 1933, some 25,000 German Jews fled to France. Now a new book by a Cornell history professor offers the first major appraisal of French responses to the Jewish refugee crisis in the 1930s.

Tcat prepares for transit fare change

Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit has been briefing drivers, employees and outlets for a systemwide fare change that will go into effect Monday, June 7.

Cornell management students post undervalued stocks on the web as a service to investors

There may be no such thing as a free lunch, but now there is free, high-quality information for investors, thanks to the savvy MBA students in accounting Associate Professor Rob Bloomfield's equity research course at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Teachers of top Cornell students to be honored at May 26 ceremony STAR program honors high school teachers; Cornell faculty also will be recognized

Cornell will honor 35 secondary school teachers, some from as far away as Russia, Singapore and India, May 26. The teachers were selected by Cornell's Merrill Presidential Scholars program.

Two new books use sociology to look at how American society views body size and weight problems

How do brides prepare for their weddings when it comes to their weight? What do overweight women do to resist the social stigma of being fat?