Events this week include a film by Bobbito García on hip-hop, basketball and sneaker culture; a talk on conserving falcons in India; Jill Frank on reading Plato's "Republic"; foreign films at Cornell Cinema; and a reading by Creative Writing Program alumni.
With 26 apple-based entries, the Cornell Orchards Store at 709 Dryden Road, Ithaca, will hold its inaugural Apple Bake-off Nov. 3 from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. to benefit the United Way of Tompkins County.
Mike Gore, Ph.D. '09, professor of plant breeding and genetics, is working on a more efficient way to develop crops that produce higher yields and better nutrition profiles as the world's population grows.
NASA’s Insight Lander, designed to measure seismic activity on Mars and study the planet’s internal structure, is scheduled to land on the red planet on Nov. 26. NASA will host a briefing on the landing on Wednesday.
