The Chinese Youth Goodwill Mission, a 21-member ensemble from the Republic of Taiwan, will present a performance extravaganza Friday, Sept. 25, at 8 p.m. in Cornell's Statler Auditorium. The show, which is open to the public.
Howardena Pindell, painter and writer, will present a lecture titled "A Life's Journey" Thursday, Sept. 24, at 4 p.m. in 101 W. Sibley Hall on the Cornell campus. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) announced today (Sept. 16) it will award Cornell University $2.2 million over the next four years to continue and expand its Cornell Institute for Biology Teachers (CIBT) and undergraduate Hughes Scholars programs.
Suzy M. Nelson has been named to lead Cornell's active Greek life system, John L. Ford, the Robert W. and Elizabeth C. Staley Dean of Students, has announced.
Has America's obsession with sex taken the place of the cold war? Are the current debate and media coverage of sexual politics in the workplace and on Capitol Hill a diversion or a progression for working women and men?
The Alumni Association of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University will honor six alumni and two faculty members at the association's annual alumni awards banquet Friday, Oct. 2. The event will be held at Cornell's Statler Hotel.
John S. Reed, chairman and chief executive officer of Citicorp and Citibank, N.A., will deliver the Hatfield Address on "Global Financial Services in the New Millennium" Thursday, Oct. 1, at 4:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall on the Cornell campus.
Cornell's Department of Food Science has selected four commercial dairies as producing the highest quality milk in New York state. Crowley Foods of Albany was named the state's top fluid milk processor, with an overall score of 84.
The papers of well-known lesbian author Valerie Taylor, who died in 1997, have been donated to Cornell University Library's Human Sexuality Collection and are being opened to the public Sept. 22. Born Sept. 7, 1913, in Aurora, Ill., Velma Tate published her first lesbian novel, 'Whisper Their Love', in 1957.
'Well-Sweep Herb Farm: Tour of Rare and Unusual Herbs' is the topic Cyrus Hyde, co-owner of the Port Murray, N.J., farm, will address in the 10th annual Audrey Harkness O'Connor Lecture on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at Cornell University.
Several members of the Cornell community are playing key roles in the 1998 United Way of Tompkins County campaign on and off campus. Their efforts, which started last spring, are aimed at raising $1.6 million this fall.
Jupiter's intricate, swirling ring system is formed by dust kicked up as interplanetary meteoroids smash into the giant planet's four, small inner moons, according to scientists studying data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Images sent by Galileo also reveal that the outermost ring is actually two rings, one embedded within the other.
