A campus memorial service for David J. Wasdyke, a Cornell student who died Nov. 7, will be held Thursday, Nov. 19, from 4 to 5 p.m. in the chapel at Anabel Taylor Hall. Janet Shortall, assistant director of Cornell United Religious Work, will conduct the service.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings today (Nov. 17, 1998) announced a plan to reorganize the Division of Biological Sciences. Rawlings said he will implement the primary recommendations of the Task Force on the Division of the Biological Sciences, which was commissioned by Provost Don M. Randel.
Cornell women are well-represented in the 'Ladies Home Journal 100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century.' During the meeting, which took place two months before the death of Princess Diana, Norton and the other advisers reduced the original master list to about 150 names.
Just 10 days after a phone call from Amanaka'a, an Amazonian advocacy group that closed its New York offices this month, Cornell University's Anthropology Collections found itself in possession of rare Amazonian artifacts.
To kick off the yearlong celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Family Life Development Center (FLDC) at Cornell, Nancy Walker, a developmental psychologist and researcher from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, will give two talks on children and the law, Tuesday, Dec. 1.
For about a decade now, librarians have been working to preserve deteriorating books, magazines and other documents by scanning and saving digital images of their pages as computer data. Meanwhile, the world continues to create new documents in digital form.
The annual Agribusiness Economic Outlook Conference will be held Tuesday, Dec. 15, from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at Cornell. Sponsored by Cornell's Department of Agricultural, Resource, and Managerial Economics, in cooperation with the Department of Policy Analysis and Management.
Federal legislation to curb industry marketing practices in the sale of infant formula and to enforce a World Health Assembly code banning the promotion of formula was called for today by a Cornell physician and nutritional scientist.
For some years now, cancer researchers have known that cancerous tumors are fed by nutrients and oxygen through blood vessels generated by endothelial cells. Now the hope is to develop drugs to prevent the cells from forming the blood vessels, thus starving the tumors.
Winnie Taylor, Cornell associate provost and chief affirmative action officer, is leaving that post after two-and-a-half years to return to the Cornell Law School faculty.
Community colleges nationwide serve 11 million students and are under increased public pressure to develop new programs to meet the training needs of the 21st century workforce and to expand educational opportunities for high school graduates and older workers who need to develop new skills.
The Faculty Fellows In Service Program, sponsored by the Cornell Public Service Center and Cornell Vice President for Student and Academic Services Susan Murphy, has awarded financial support to five faculty and community teams to write papers on new initiatives in service learning.
