In the memorably hot summer of 1988 in Newton, Mass., Jack Connor murdered his mother, father and grandmother. He left their corpses in the family home for a week, their lifeless faces covered with his grandmother's underwear, rosary beads in their hands.
Professor Fatou Sow, chair of the Department of Social Sciences of the Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire at UniversitŽ Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal, will give a University Lecture on "Challenging the State: Women's Rights and the Future of Africa," April 4.
Ten major labor unions will recruit on the Cornell campus for the first time as part of Union Day '98, April 2, sponsored by the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Representatives will meet with interested students to talk about career opportunities at the various unions.
As electronic devices grow ever smaller, single molecules could one day become components of electronic circuits or even moving parts of tiny machines. Cornell researchers have now demonstrated one way this could be done, by isolating a single oxygen molecule and causing it to rotate on command.
In a close race with substantially lower voter turnout than five years ago, J. Robert Cooke, Cornell professor of agricultural and biological engineering, was elected dean of the Cornell faculty. Cooke, elected to a three-year term, takes office July 1.
The clash of two armies at a place that one side called Bull Run and the other Manassas was supposed to end a war before it began. But when the battle was over, 900 soldiers lay dead on the fields of Virginia, and a man on a mission of mercy from Ithaca, who four years later would found a great university, was running for his life.
The Cornell Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca on March 26 and 27. The board will meet from 9 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., and again from 2 to 4 p.m. on March 27, in the Trustee Meeting Room of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.
Melissa Hines is a researcher in search of perfection. Her goal is a mirror surface on which not even a single atom is protruding above the surface. "There is no theoretical reason why you can't make things that are perfect," says Hines, an assistant professor of chemistry.
A unique collection of correspondence between Indonesian adolescents and the psychology professor who has become Southeast Asia's own "Dr. Ruth" is now available at the Cornell University Library.
A new agreement extends some protection to astronomers who use the Arecibo Radio Telescope in Puerto Rico and have been concerned about potential interference from the commercial satellite system IRIDIUM.
If you shuffled off to Buffalo, N.Y., in February, you need not have shoveled much snow. Not since 1890 has Buffalo survived winter so easily, with only 1.8 inches of snow during the month, breaking the 108-year-old record by 0.4 of an inch.
