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Paleoanthropologist Sileshi Semaw to speak at Cornell on March 25

Sileshi Semaw, a renowned paleoanthropologist whose research team has unearthed some of the oldest known stone tools, will discuss his work in a public lecture at Cornell, March 25, at 3 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall.

Seminar focuses on social work in managed care environment

With more than 42 million people enrolled in managed care programs, social workers and other human service professionals have become increasingly concerned about ethical dilemmas and issues related to client advocacy, access, regulation and consumer protection.

Cornell Plantations seeks return of uprooted plants, garden plaque

Cornell Plantations officials are asking for the return of about a dozen yucca plants stolen from a site on Judd Falls Road and a bronze plaque that is missing from the Mary Rockwell Azalea Garden on Tower Road.

Cornell engineering expert to present study on manure management in York, N.Y., on March 24

In a 20-mile radius of York, N.Y., more than 30,000 dairy cows on 100 farms produce as much sludge as 1.5 million people. But with the help of Cornell agricultural engineers, the community literally may soon clear the air.

Newly unearthed letter affirms Cornell Founder's commitment to nonsectarianism

ITHACA, N.Y. -- For nearly 125 years, historians have assumed that a letter Cornell University Founder Ezra Cornell wrote and placed for posterity into the Sage Hall cornerstone had addressed the university's coeducational status. After all, the campus building was to house the Sage College for Women at the only public coeducational institution of higher education in the eastern United States. But historians could only assume; Cornell made no copy of his letter and showed it to no one at the time. No one but Cornell himself knew its contents. Until now.

Two architectural innovators will present four lectures at Cornell this month

Rem Koolhaas and Bernard Tschumi, two influential architects who have made their marks designing urban parks and cities, will deliver the 1997 Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lectures at Cornell.

Bioengineering is topic for Cornell Society of Engineers annual conference April 10-12

The biological applications of engineering, or bioengineering, is the topic of the 1997 Cornell Society of Engineers annual conference April 10-12 at Cornell.

Cornell chemist Jack Freed receives APS award

Jack H. Freed, Cornell professor of chemistry, has been awarded the 1997 Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics by the American Physical Society.

CUSLAR will host 'Sweatshop Fashion Show' to highlight workers' plight

Cornell's Committee on U.S.--Latin American Relations will host a 'Sweatshop Fashion Show' to highlight the treacherous working conditions of garment industry workers in the United States and Latin America.

But too many Americans are deep in "drowsy denial," says sleep researcher James B. Maas

More than 80 percent of college undergraduate students are smart enough to take a nap and help restore their mental and physical powers, according to a survey of 802 Cornell psychology students.

Historian and writer Tzvetan Todorov to lecture at Cornell as Clark Fellow

Tzvetan Todorov, an internationally renowned writer and director of research at the Centre National de Recherches in Paris, will visit Cornell  on March 24-28 as a Clark Fellow.

"Shake table" in Cornell's concrete lab shows effects of a major earthquake on structures

This just in: An earthquake hit part of the Cornell campus on Feb. 26, resulting in severe building damage, broken concrete and a lot of data.