The locations of sessions of the Nabokov Centenary Festival's scholarly conference at Cornell University, Sept. 10-12, have been changed to accommodate larger audiences. Here is an updated schedule, with session times and locations.
Eloy Rodriguez, the James A. Perkins Professor of Environmental Studies at Cornell, has been named the fifth annual E.E. Just Lecturer by the American Society for Cell Biology.
Many of the Cornell students who live off campus call Collegetown home during the academic year. But Collegetown is also home to year-round residents and families, private homes and large apartment complexes, and a bustling business district.
Jane Goodall, the world-renowned primatologist, will present a free and open lecture titled 'Individuals Make a Difference For Humans and Chimpanzees' on Friday, Sept. 11, at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall at Cornell.
Tiny polymer pellets, some microscopic in size, containing a natural protein, hold the promise of one day being able to treat such neurodegenerative diseases as Alzheimer's. The system is startlingly effective because it targets, within a fraction of an inch, the area of the brain where cell death is causing the devastating illness.
Mel Horton, vice president of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers' District 5, and Ann Twomey, president and founding member of Health Professional and Allied Employees and national vice president of the American Federation of Teachers, will speak at Cornell.
Applying what he learned from spearheading the deregulation of the airline industry, Alfred E. Kahn, the Robert Julius Thorne Professor of Political Economy Emeritus at Cornell and one of the most influential figures in public utility deregulation.
James A. Perkins, who as president of Cornell from 1963 to 1969 led the campus during its most tumultuous years of social change, died August 19 in Burlington, Vt. He was 86.
New, incoming students will be welcomed to Cornell with a week of activities, events, trips and speakers, tailored just for them. Approximately 3,300 freshman, 500 transfer students and 1,500 new graduate and professional students will flock to campus.
The Cornell Center for Materials Research is offering several outreach programs for children, ages 5 to 8, during the 1998-99 school year. There is no charge for the events, but parents are asked to participate in the workshops with their children.
Researchers have reported significant progress in making a new generation of transistors based on gallium nitride, a material that promises to deliver up to a hundred times as much power at microwave frequencies as the semiconductors now used in cellular telephones, military radar and satellite transmitters.
