Cornell President Hunter Rawlings has submitted the university's comments on the draft collegiate code of conduct that seeks to eliminate "sweatshops" by establishing safe and humane working conditions in factories where college names and logos are applied to apparel.
David Macdonald, head of the Wildlife Conservation Research Unit at Oxford University, will deliver a public lecture in April during his first visit to Cornell as an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large.
When it comes to managing local deer that munch foliage and crunch fenders, Cayuga Heights residents want to keep the decision-making local, according to a survey by Cornell's natural-resources experts.
Bassam Shakhashiri, professor of chemistry at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, will present an evening of magical chemical demonstrations on the Cornell University campus April 7.
Kemal Kurspahic, former editor in chief of the Bosnian independent daily 'Oslobodjenje', which published every day during the three-and-a-half year siege of Sarajevo, returns to Cornell to deliver a public talk.
Experts with a wide variety of perspectives at an April 1-2 conference at Cornell will attempt to answer the question: Who should rightfully profit from biotechnology's exploitation of the "intellectual property" of nature?
David Liben-Nowell, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, has received a 1999 Winston Churchill Foundation scholarship providing for one year of graduate study at Churchill College of Cambridge University in England.
Anthropologist Brackette F. Williams, a 1973 Cornell alumna and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius" Award, is slated to give the College of Human Ecology's annual Flemmie Kittrell Lecture.
Daniel Kleppner, the Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will give the 1999 Bethe Lectures in physics March 29 through April 7 on the Cornell campus.
David Kelly, an expert on biological warfare with UNSCOM, the United Nations Special Commission on Iraq, will discuss Iraq's biological weapons program at the auditorium in the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) on the campus.
