Three Cornell University students have received the 2006-07 Morris K. Udall Scholarship. The students garnered awards up to $5,000 each from a field of 445 nominations from 224 institutions.
Cornell events this week include an eco-cruise on Cayuga Lake, 'A Trip to the Moon' and other films in Willard Straight Hall, a lecture on entrepreneurship, and jazz musician Tia Fuller in Bailey Hall. (Sept. 6, 2012)
After stops at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., galleries in Boston, Charlotte, N.C., and Florence, Italy, and two weeks at Ithaca College's Handwerker Gallery, the artist Jason Dilley's startling exhibit on the faces and voices of AIDS, Project Face to Face, will open at the art gallery in Willard Straight Hall.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has awarded a $250,000 grant to Cornell University to boost the marketing infrastructure for lambs and goats in the Northeast. The initial project, which runs to July 2002.
Cornell astronomy professor Steven Squyres will speak to members of Congress at the Rayburn House Office Building in Washington, D.C., Friday morning, May 8, on future plans for the exploration of the Red Planet.
A new book, co-edited by Warren Allmon and Linda Grace-Kobas, collects the results of the first Darwin Day at Cornell, held in February 2006. Darwin Day 2007 will be observed Feb. 8-12. (Feb. 6, 2007)
Cornell is announcing the first winter program of the Pre-Orientation Service Trips (POST), a project of the Cornell Public Service Center. POST is an opportunity for students to participate in hands-on community service, learn about the Ithaca community and make a group of new friends.
Edna O'Brien, one of Ireland's foremost literary figures, will give a fiction reading as the first event in the new Eamon McEneaney Memorial Reading Series Oct. 3.
The materials and technology of the 21st century will be under examination when a major industrial research conference, the 11th annual Polymer Outreach Program symposium, is held at Cornell University May 22 and 23.