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.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Corn in all its forms will be celebrated Sunday, Sept. 28, from 1 to 4 p.m. when Cornell Plantations stages the first Judy's Day with educational and fun-filled activities for kids and their families. The festival, "Corn, the A-Maize-ing Grain," is open to the public free of charge, rain or shine. Activities are planned for Emerson Garden, the historically named "Corn Hollow" area near Plantations headquarters where Barbara McClintock's Nobel Prize-winning research was conducted and where teaching about corn continues today.
Internationally known novelist Don DeLillo, who rarely makes public appearances, will read from his work Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in Cornell's David L. Call Alumni Auditorium.
The Cornell Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City on Thursday, Sept. 11. The meeting will be held in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St., at 2 p.m.
Roll up your sleeves. The United Way of Tompkins County is kicking off its 1997 campaign Sept. 17 with a "Day of Caring," which could become a new tradition.
Proving that even minor planets can survive cosmic fender-benders, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a large crater -- with an estimated diameter of 285 miles and about 8 miles deep -- on the asteroid Vesta, according to an article published in today's issue of the journal Science (Sept. 5).
