Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of education research at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, is scheduled to participate in a Congressional Teach-In Thursday, Sept. 11, from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Caucus Room of the Cannon House Office in Washington, D.C.
Cornell's skyline will boast another tower when Olive Tjaden Hall, located on Cornell's Arts Quad, has its steeple restored as part of the building's $7.5 million renovation project. The 30-foot, 20-ton steeple currently is being built on the ground adjacent to Tjaden Hall.
Carlos Castillo-Chavez was awarded a 1997 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring at a White House ceremony on Sept. 11.
Twenty-five scholars from the Caribbean, South America and Africa will examine the status of black studies programs abroad at a conference presented by the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell, Sept. 19 and 20.
Faculty at New York's leading research universities brought $1.2 billion in federal research grants into the state in 1996, which resulted in support for an estimated 42,444 full- and part-time jobs statewide, according to a survey.
Cornell Plantations and other tree-friendly groups in Tompkins County are gearing up for the third annual Big Tree Search, a contest that aims for year-round tree appreciation. Nov. 15, 1997, is the deadline for the nomination of trees that may be the largest of their species in Tompkins County.
Jane Goodall, one of the world's best known scientists, will return to Cornell this fall as an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large, joining four other noted scholars -- Roger Chartier, Seyyed Nasr, George L. Mosse, Anthony Seeger -- to deliver more than a dozen free, public lectures during the semester.
Theodore J. Lowi, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at Cornell, has been elected president of the International Political Science Association. Lowi, who has taught at Cornell since 1972, was elected to a three-year term as president at the triennial meeting in Seoul, Korea, Aug. 22.
The critically acclaimed TV movie adaptation of Cornell Professor David Feldshuh's 1992 Pulitzer-nominated play Miss Evers' Boys has been nominated for a dozen Emmy Awards by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.
Edwin E. Salpeter, the James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences emeritus at Cornell and winner of the 1997 Crafoord Prize in Astrophysics, will deliver a physics colloquium on "Astrophysics in the 1950s and Advice to Young Players" on Monday, Sept. 15, at 4:30 in Schwartz Auditorium.
Karlton E. Hester and Roberto Sierra, members of the Cornell music faculty, have been selected as American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Award recipients.
Five members of the Cornell community have started not only a new academic year, but new community service responsibilities as residential "bunkers" with the Ithaca Fire Department.
