'Cognitive advantages follow from becoming bilingual,' says Barbara Lust, a developmental psychology and linguistics expert. 'These cognitive advantages can contribute to a child's future academic success.'
Film editor Thelma Schoonmaker '61 will present highlights from her work, including several features and documentaries directed by Martin Scorsese, at Cornell Cinema's Willard Straight Theatre on Saturday, Nov. 19.
Phillip Valentine Tobias, one of the world's leading experts on prehistoric human ancestors, will give a lecture at Cornell University on Thursday, April 17, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall. The lecture is presented as part of the A.D. White Professors-at-Large series.
Bird enthusiasts and their families are invited to the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's community open house June 21 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 159 Sapsucker Woods Road. The open house is being held to celebrate the lab's new, $26.5 million Imogene Powers Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity. The facility is home to almost 200 part- and full-time staff working in the lab's programs on citizen science, education, conservation and bioacoustics research. The building also houses the lab's Macaulay Library, home to the world's largest collection of natural sounds, and the Cornell Museum of Vertebrates, which is valuable to both researchers and educators. (June 09, 2003)
The expected appearance of a large dragon on the Cornell campus Thursday afternoon will create staggered road closings on central campus between 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. Motorists are advised to avoid driving through central campus.
Steven Stucky's most commercially successful work to date is an arrangement of a piece written by a man who died 400 years ago -- Henry Purcell's "Funeral Music for Queen Mary."
An international group of agricultural scientists is studying how to feed the world while conserving natural ecosystems. In a first step, the Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resources Management program of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has chosen Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences to study how to unite agricultural and environmental land management worldwide. Louise Buck, Cornell senior extension associate in natural resources, will lead the "ecoagriculture" assessment team. "Around the world there has been too much competition between agriculture and natural resources," says Buck. "This is bringing together the state of the art in natural science and social science research, all for managing agricultural land systems and conserving biodiversity. We are looking for synergies." (December 8, 2003)
Editors' picks for Cornell events during the week of Sept. 19 range from Saturn exhibition to poetry performance to a visit by a Bollywood star. (Sept. 19, 2008)