Most football fans will be on tenterhooks until Super Bowl on Jan. 31, when the Denver Broncos and the Atlanta Falcons face off. But Douglas Stayman's students at Cornell will wait until the week following the main event to sit on the edge of their seats in rapt concentration.
The Cornell Board of Trustees will hold its first meeting of 1999 Jan. 28 through 30 at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University in New York City.
In a new book, The Deep Hot Biosphere, Cornell professor emeritus of astronomy Thomas Gold argues that subterranean bacteria started the whole evolutionary process, and that there's no looming energy shortage because oil reserves are far greater than predicted.
Kenneth P. Birman, Cornell professor of computer science, has been named a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the world's oldest and largest organization of computer professionals. He will be formally inducted, along with 33 other new members.
The Cornell Community and Rural Development Institute (CaRDI) presented in November its annual Innovator Awards to three successful collaborative programs in New York state: Community Links, the Community Plant-Food Project and the Small-Scale Food Processing and Sustainable Agriculture project.
The Cornell campus community will join in "A Celebration of Martin Luther King Jr." on Thursday, Feb. 4, at 4 p.m. in Sage Chapel. The Rev. Walter Fluker, director of the Leadership Center at Morehouse College in Atlanta, will speak about the relevance of King's legacy for the Cornell community.
Cornell, in another effort to help ensure that it remains affordable for the nation's top students, today (Jan. 25, 1999) announced that beginning in fall 1999, students will be able to use the full amount of any outside scholarships to reduce the amount they would otherwise borrow.
A few bad actors among the more than 30,000 non-indigenous species in the United States cost $123 billion a year in economic losses, Cornell University ecologists estimate. "It doesn't take many trouble-makers to cause tremendous damage," Cornell ecologist David Pimentel.
Fourth generation peanut farmer Luke Green of Banks, Ala., produces organically grown peanuts, markets them in his peanut butter -- Luke's Pure Peanuts -- and his small family farm thrives economically when others around him are closing.
Thanks to a technique known as genetic mapping, Cornell scientists have for the first time located genetic factors that allow significant increases in yields of rice grown by poor farmers trying to produce crops in hardscrabble conditions.
Comedienne Paula Poundstone has rescheduled her show at Cornell for Sunday, Feb. 7, at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall. Tickets for the original, cancelled show of Dec. 7, 1998, will be honored for the Feb. 7 event.
Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (Tcat) is holding a series of public meetings to present fare structure recommendations that are scheduled to go into effect by the end of this summer.
