President Hunter Rawlings and Cornell alumnus Robert B. Hoffman '58 will join Cornell Outdoor Education in dedicating the new Hoffman Challenge Course on Mount Pleasant in the Town of Dryden, Friday, Sept. 26 at 4:30 p.m.
Complex computing problems as different as modeling Earth's climate system, predicting effects of regulatory change in the dairy industry or serving a semester's worth of lecture videos to student dormitories will operate on a scalable distributed network of powerful desktop computers, thanks in part to a $6 million grant from Intel Corp. to Cornell.
When Ithaca High School's 1997 football season opens Sept. 6, the team will be playing on East Hill instead of on the flats. Home games for the Little Red of Ithaca High this fall will be at Cornell's Schoellkopf Field, where the Big Red play. While IHS Coach Frank Fazio's team is ready for the season, the high-school field is not.
Having mastered the world of simple polymers, materials engineers will now turn their attention toward complex, "self-organizing" polymers. And this will have a profound effect on our lives -- perhaps with the potential of keeping airplane wings free of ice, according to a Cornell scientist in the latest edition of the journal Science.
Plant scientists from Cornell and the University of Tasmania, Australia, have successfully cloned one of history's first-studied genes -- the gene for stem growth in peas, according to a report in the latest issue of journal The Plant Cell, which was published today.
The benefits of nurse home visits to low-income, unmarried women during pregnancy and the early years of their children's lives endure for many years after the program of home visitation ends, according to two newly published University of Colorado Health Sciences Center/Cornell studies appearing in this week's issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
David Wolfe, associate professor of fruit and vegetable science, will discuss "Climate Change and Agricultural Impacts" at the New England Regional Climate Change Impacts Workshop in Durham, N.H., scheduled for Sept. 3-5.
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.
A formal ceremony to reaffirm the long-standing partnership between Cornell and the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) will be held at the Indian Village on the New York State Fair grounds on Indian Day, Friday, Aug. 29.
The New York State Agricultural Society wanted a new exhibit for its agricultural museum at the New York State Fair and Cornell student Jennifer Edwards turned it into something everybody kneads.
Several members of the Cornell community are playing key roles in the 1997 United Way campaign on and off campus this fall. Their efforts, which started a few months ago, are aimed at raising $1.46 million.
"Duality and Unification" will be the topic for mathematical physicist Edward Witten of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies when he delivers a special Gemant Lecture on Monday, Sept. 1, at 3:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall'
