The great ice storm of Jan. 7-11 has long since melted away. But the economic damage left in its wake continues to mount, with New York maple syrup producers facing production losses of more than $3 million.
Troy Donahue, a American teen heartthrob from the '60s, will play Harry MacAfee, a father whose life is disrupted by teen idol Conrad Birdie, in the 1998 national tour of Bye Bye Birdie, at Cornell's Statler Auditorium on Feb. 28 at 8 p.m.
Three Cornell faculty members have been awarded Sloan Research Fellowships for 1998: Dong Lai, assistant professor of astronomy; Gregory Morrisett, assistant professor of computer science, and Michael J. Spivey-Knowlton, assistant professor of psychology.
College presidents coping with campus violence and harassment caused by alcohol and drug use now have a new informational tool to help them examine the problem from a national perspective and develop responses to potential violence before it occurs.
A Cornell graduate program in community and rural development, now in its first year, is accepting applicants for fall 1998. The one-year master of professional studies program provides training for mid-career professionals, such as public administrators, economic development specialists, human services providers and extension agents.
Former death row inmate Rolando Cruz has canceled his scheduled appearance at the Cornell Law School today (Feb. 19). His flight from Illinois was turned back due to weather problems.
D. Merrill Ewert, a faculty member in the Department of Education, has been named director of Cornell Cooperative Extension by the deans of the College of Human Ecology and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
After stops at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., galleries in Boston, Charlotte, N.C., and Florence, Italy, and two weeks at Ithaca College's Handwerker Gallery, the artist Jason Dilley's startling exhibit on the faces and voices of AIDS, Project Face to Face, will open at the art gallery in Willard Straight Hall.
Cornell students and other members of the Cornell community are needed to take part in 4-H's annual Environmental Appreciation Days, scheduled this year for May 1, 4 and 7.
A book by Gregory S. Alexander, Cornell professor of law, has been named one of the best scholarly works of 1997 by the Association of American Publishers. Alexander's Commodity and Propriety: Competing Visions of Property in American Legal.
Jane Mt. Pleasant, director of the American Indian Program at Cornell, was presented with the highest honor of the American Indian Science and Engineering Society at the organization's national conference in Houston in November.
