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.
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?
