AIDS has provoked an enormous outpouring of theoretical reflection on how to write about the illness. Yet, the number of authors writing about AIDS and the critics in search of the AIDS discourse are extremely scarce in European literature, says a German coming to Cornell.
Cornell students, including members of fraternities and sororities, and Collegetown residents will clean up the streets of Collegetown on Saturday, Oct. 3.
A mere $10 investment to enroll in a Cornell Cooperative Extension financial education program reaped an average $5,000 gain in net worth for participants one year later, according to a Cornell University survey.
From helping farm families cope with financial and personal stress and teaching families parenting skills to helping urban communities concerned with violence, finding opportunities for older Americans to volunteer with youth in 4-H programs and working with policy makers as they struggle with welfare reform choices, Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE).
A memorial service for James A. Perkins, who served as president of Cornell from 1963 to 1969, will be held Oct. 4 at 2 p.m. in the chapel at Princeton University. Perkins died Aug. 19 at age 86 in Burlington, Vt.
Cornell Cooperative Extension will present Ralph L. Snodsmith, president of R.L. Snodsmith Ornamental Horticulturist Inc. and a radio and television personality, with the 1998 Friend of Cornell Cooperative Extension Award at a celebratory reception Monday, Oct. 5.
Initial information indicates that the massive reflector dish of Arecibo Observatory apparently sustained minimal damage from Hurricane Georges, which swept across Puerto Rico late Monday night, observatory officials report.
Does exposure to certain pesticides increase the risk of breast cancer? Is there a link between childhood obesity and adult breast cancer? If human estrogen promotes some kinds of breast cancer, can phytoestrogens from plants possibly offer protection?
Students from Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management, one of the top 20 business schools in the country, want to tackle real-world problems, not textbook examples. So Cornell Associate Professor Robert Bloomfield has developed a program that will allow his accounting classes to spend time analyzing challenges to actual businesses.
Béla Greskovits, a political economist from Central European University (Budapest, Hungary), will present the 1998 Einaudi Lecture Sept. 29 at 4:30 p.m. in the A.D. White House on the Cornell campus.
Pet a lamb, milk a cow and see how animal scientists care for a variety of farm animals at the open house at Cornell University's Animal Science Teaching and Research Center in Dryden on Saturday, Oct. 3. This free open house will feature tours of the center.
