Every day, more and more information is available worldwide in digital form. Cornell is holding a meeting to explore the future of digital libraries, from Oct. 17-19. The conference is the first of eight to be held over the next four years.
It's become an annual Orientation week rite of passage at Cornell - the New Student Reading Project, which involves programs surrounding the reading of a text in common by all first-year students.
Members of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and Cornell University Council will arrive on campus Oct. 7, for Cornell's annual Trustee/Council Weekend.
Cornell's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology will hold a symposium Oct. 1 in memory of Franklin A. Long, professor emeritus of chemistry and the university's vice president for research and advanced studies from 1963 to 1969, who died Feb. 8.
The Cornell Political Forum, a 12-year-old student organization at Cornell that publishes the award-winning quarterly journal of the same name, will host a panel discussion on China on Monday, March 31, at 8 p.m. in Auditorium D of Goldwin Smith Hall.
Rob Ryan, founder of Ascend Communications and Entrepreneur America, will be honored by Cornell University, Sept. 26 and 27, as Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year for 2002.
Patricia Nelson Limerick, a professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder and one of the pioneers of the trend known as "New Western History," will deliver three Carl Becker Lectures at Cornell March 31 through April 2. She will deliver the lectures, which are free and open to the public.
Hunter R. Rawlings III announced today his intention to retire from the presidency on June 30, 2003, and to assume a full-time professorship thereafter in the university's Department of Classics.
Nelson E. Roth, a partner in an Ithaca law firm and special prosecutor in the recent state police evidence-tampering investigation, has been appointed an associate university counsel in the Cornell Counsel's Office.
Headline-grabbing die-offs of sea life could be just the tip of the iceberg as global warming and pollution allow old diseases to find new hosts, 13 biologists predict in this week's issue (Sept. 3, 1999) of the journal Science.