For the first time in history, humanity will send a sundial to another planet. Inscribed with the motto "Two Worlds, One Sun," the sundial will travel to Mars aboard NASA's Mars Surveyor 2001 lander.
A fortified orange-flavored powdered drink has proved so successful in improving the health of Tanzanian children that the Cornell and Tanzanian teams who tested it now want to see if it will do the same for other developing countries.
Poet Li-Young Lee will read from his work Thursday, April 29, at 4:30 p.m. in Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, on campus. The reading is free and open to the public.
While flag burning, bra burning and Robert Mapplethorpe's racy photographs have tested the limits of free speech over the past few decades, a Cornell Law School professor applauds these active demonstrations of dissent.
The Cornell Political Forum's quarterly magazine, a nonpartisan political journal produced by undergraduate students, has been honored with a Silver Crown Award by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
An increasingly popular commercial corn, genetically engineered to produce a bacterial toxin to protect against corn pests, has an unwanted side effect: Its pollen kills monarch butterfly larvae in laboratory tests, according to a report by Cornell University researchers.
Harvey Golub, chairman and chief executive officer of the American Express Co., will be speaking at Cornell April 23, at 4:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.
While the national observance of Earth Day '99 officially falls on April 22, this year, many Ithaca events are scheduled for Saturday, April 24. So, to coincide with local celebrations marking Earth Day's 29th anniversary, Tcat is offering 25-cent fares.
Cornell alumnus Samuel C. Fleming '62, chairman and chief executive officer of Decision Resources Inc., will deliver the 1999 School of Chemical Engineering Raymond G. Thorpe Lecture.
