Alumni from Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences are invited to participate in the second Agriculture and Life Sciences Alumni Forum on Saturday, April 18. More than two dozen classes will be available for the Cornell alumni and their guests.
Cornell's Women's Studies Program and the Program on Gender and Global Change are sponsoring a four-day conference, "Genders and Nations: Reflections on Women in Revolution," April 2 to 5 on campus and in the community.
NASA has opened the way for the signing of a $24.8 million contract between Cornell and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for building an infrared spectrograph, a sophisticated instrument that will be sent into orbit to detect and analyze some of the most distant objects in the universe.
U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) will participate in a panel discussion on "U.S. Immigration Policy: What's in the Future" Friday, March 27, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. in the MacDonald Moot Court Room of Myron Taylor Hall. The presentation is free and open to the public.
In a decision dated March 23, 1998, New York State Supreme Court Justice Phillip R. Rumsey dismissed remaining claims in a lawsuit brought by Professor James Maas against Cornell.
V. Daniel Castracane of Texas Tech University's department of obstetrics and gynecology will discuss "Human Menopause and Estrogen Replacement Therapy" on Wednesday, April 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Women's Community Building, 100 West Seneca St.
Two hundred years after the essay that put "Malthusian" in the lexicon, the consequences of overpopulation are more dire than ever, warns Cornell anthropologist David Price.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- New empirical studies on racial discrimination and the influencing of juries related to capital sentencing will be presented at a symposium on the death penalty Saturday, March 28, at Cornell University. The symposium, "How the Death Penalty Works: Empirical Studies of the Modern Capital Sentencing System," sponsored by the Cornell Law Review and the Cornell Death Penalty Project, will bring to campus more than a dozen leading legal scholars, some of whom have represented death-row inmates in postconviction appeals, to address and present new research on capital punishment issues.
Ten million Americans, including almost 4 million children, don't get enough to eat, according to a new study from Cornell University and the National Center for Health Statistics of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Daniel Libeskind, an influential architectural educator, theoretician and practitioner from Berlin, will deliver the 1998 Preston H. Thomas Lectures April 1 and 2.
"Ammonsfest," a celebration of the life and work of acclaimed poet A.R. Ammons, Cornell's Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry, will be held on the Cornell campus April 3 and 4.
