A public information session and meeting will be conducted Tuesday, March 10, at the DeWitt Middle School on Warren Road to brief members of the community on the status of Cornell's former radiation disposal site in Lansing.
An unprecedented collaboration among a drug company, a university and conservationists will result in a search for new medicinal compounds that might be contained in fungi on a nature preserve in upstate New York. It will be the first survey of its kind in a temperate zone habitat.
A consortium of eight New York colleges and universities, including Cornell, will receive grants to support connection to a special high-speed computer network as part of a National Science Foundation grant announced by President Bill Clinton yesterday (Feb. 26).
The Book of Love (Norton 1998), an anthology of writings about love, edited by writer Diane Ackerman and novelist Jeanne Mackin, takes on that ancient and heart-stoppingly contemporary question, what is love? "It feels like hunger pains, and we use the same word. Pang," writes Ackerman in her introduction.
Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Jeffrey Lang and other experts on international trade will offer insight into a controversial new international investment agreement Friday, March 6, at the Cornell Law School.
Jason Millman, a Cornell professor of education and an expert on standardized testing methods, died Feb. 22 in Lake Oswego, Ore., where he was visiting family. He died from complications arising from Shy-Drager Syndrome. He was 64.
The Cornell Figure Skating Club will hold its annual exhibition Sunday, March 8, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at Cornell's Lynah Rink. Adults and children in the club's learn-to-skate, advanced skaters and ice dancing programs will be strutting their stuff to Broadway tunes in solo and group numbers.
January temperatures for the Northeast region of the United States averaged 7.7 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than normal, making it the 10th warmest January in the last 104 years of record-keeping, according to Keith Eggleston, a senior climatologist at the Northeast Regional Climate Center.
Cornell will be one of 15 universities participating in a new project to support women studying science and engineering. Called "MentorNet," the project will use the Internet and electronic mail to connect female engineering, science and math students.
Workers in poorly ventilated offices are twice as likely to report the symptoms of sick building syndrome as are employees in a well-ventilated environment, a new Cornell study finds.
Attorneys, legal scholars and environmentalists will participate in a Cornell Law School symposium, "Changing of the Guardian: Re-examining the Role of the Federal Government in the Protection of Endangered Species and Environmental Habitat," Feb. 27 and 28.
Alan H. Guth, the Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be the Hans A. Bethe Lecturer at Cornell University. Guth will give a free, public lecture.
