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Grad students to define 'Technology and Identity' in April conference

Cornell graduate students in the Department of Science and Technology Studies will host a conference on "Technology and Identity" April 16-18 in Hans Bethe Auditorium, Clark Hall.

Materials science at Cornell emphasizes schoolchildren and teachers as well as research

Materials science at Cornell is about nanocomposites, thin films on glass and energetic beams deposition. But it is also about students and teachers and families learning the basics of science and technology together.

Not a hand but maybe a sponge: A mysterious glass fossil becomes the subject of a public search

Cornell paleontologists are enlisting the public's help in the search for some unusual 375 million-year-old fossils in upstate New York and northern Pennsylvania.

Public Service Center program sponsors leadership conference Feb. 28

The Cornell Public Service Leadership Fellows program will sponsor its fifth annual campuswide leadership conference at Willard Straight Hall, Sunday, Feb. 28.

Hospital administrator and public affairs director named at Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine

Two changes in leadership have been announced at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine.

$3,000-a-year journal subscriptions endanger major sources of research information, Cornell panel says

Thanks to soaring prices, academic agricultural and biological journals, which for 200 years have been crucial to providing information on advances in biology, food production, plant diseases and animal science.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres will visit Cornell and deliver Bartels Fellowship Lecture March 17

Former Israeli prime minister and Nobel Prize winner Shimon Peres will be the 1999 Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellow at Cornell on March 17.

Commonly used therapy for lead poisoning might alter the immune system, Cornell animal study indicates

A commonly used drug for reducing toxicological effects of lead poisoning might alter immune function, a Cornell University study of pregnant rats and their offspring has found.

Former South African President F.W. de Klerk lectures on campus March 10

F.W. de Klerk, South Africa's last president under the system of apartheid and recipient of a 1993 Nobel Prize, will give a public lecture in Newman Arena in the Field House at Cornell.

Forum in March will use Cornell '69 book to launch campuswide discussion on diversity

As part of ongoing efforts to initiate campus dialogue on critical issues, Cornell University President Hunter Rawlings and Dean of the Faculty J. Robert Cooke are cosponsoring a University Faculty Forum.

National competition seeks designs for New Hampshire eco-industrial park

The Cornell Work and Environment Initiative and the town of Londonderry, N.H., are conducting a national design competition for a site design of an eco-industrial park and its 25,000-square-foot flexible industrial building. Londonderry.

Proposals requested for 1999 community-project grants

The committee for the 1999 Robert S. Smith Award for community progress and innovation is calling for proposals from local community organizations and agencies.