Grammy Award-winning artist Richard Smallwood, singing with the choir Vision, will headline the 22nd Annual Festival of Black Gospel at Cornell Feb. 20 to 22.
Evelyne Ender, maitre-assistante in modern English literature at the University of Geneva, will speak on "Writing and Remembering: Virginia Woolf, Lou Andreas-Salome and Others," Thursday, Feb. 19, at 4:30 p.m. in the A.D. White House, as part of the Cornell Lecture Series. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Kip Thorne, the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology, will give the first Lyman Parratt Lecture in Physics at Cornell on Feb. 16.
"Spring Field Ornithology," the eight-week course designed for beginning bird-watchers and scheduled this year for March 25 through May 16, is open for registration by the general public as well as by Cornell students.
Many intelligent, reasonable people regard literary theory as the equivalent of -- well, if not of drinking sand, then at least of drinking motor oil. And Cornell English Department chair and Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature Jonathan Culler is well aware of that belief.
Feminist author Susan Faludi will deliver the annual Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Foundation Lecture on Thursday, March 26, at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall at Cornell.
To officially introduce six new varieties of fruits and vegetables developed by Cornell plant breeders, the university will hold a press conference Tuesday, Feb. 10, from noon to 1 p.m., at the New York State Vegetable Conference and New York State Berry Growers Meeting.
Cornell's Mann Library will soon give agriculture researchers and students in developing countries access to a wealth of technical information they need to increase food production.
Cornell Plantations is seeking volunteer guides to give tours to school children and the general public in the Mundy Wildflower Garden and other areas. Weekly training sessions are scheduled for Wednesdays from 9 a.m. to noon, March 4 through April 29.
New York state red wines have higher levels of resveratrol -- a naturally occurring substance in grapes that has been found to reduce the chance of heart disease and cancer -- than comparable wines from other regions of the world.
The pheromone trail laid down by an Aphaenogaster rudis ant to help the ant and its recruited nest mates find their way back to prey they plan to kill -- contains a chemical now undergoing clinical trials as a possible Alzheimer's disease treatment.
Cornell students' biological inventory of a rain forest tract in the Amazon is revealing the chemical strategies of organisms that survive in one of the planet's most competitive environments.
