Mann Library is on the verge of selling its 100th Library in a Box, formally called The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library. The equivalent of an entire room's worth of print journals all compressed onto CDs provides some 2.2 million pages of academic articles to 100 institutions in 50 developing countries, from Vietnam, Bangladesh and Afghanistan to Senegal, Ethiopia and Malawi to Honduras, Bolivia and Peru.
Catherine Oertel, a postdoctoral fellow in materials chemistry at Cornell and an organist herself, is researching what is corroding Baroque-era organs in churches and cathedrals across Europe.
An interdisciplinary, regional conference entirely organized and conducted by Cornell graduate students will be held on campus May 7-9 in Room 401 Warren Hall. The Second Annual Great Lakes Graduate Conference in Political Economy.
Cornell has established an Office of Distance Learning to explore ways to extend the boundaries of the university through the use of communication technologies.
Cornell University engineering undergraduates swept the competition again this year at the annual five-day International Formula SAE collegiate design and motorsports competition at the Pontiac, Mich., Silverdome, which ended May 19.
Robert H. Foote, Cornell professor emeritus of animal science and one of the pioneers in cloning, will testify at hearings on cloning before the New York State Senate Committee on Investigation on Thursday, March 13 in New York City.
Epoch, a literary journal based in the English department at Cornell for the past 50 years, will have four of its stories included in Prized Stories 1997: The O. Henry Awards, one of the nation's most prestigious collections of short fiction.
Beth E. Clark, a research associate in Cornell's Department of Astronomy for the past three years, has been named by NASA to lead a research team for history's first asteroid sample return mission.
Cornell students, inner-city young people and community partner organizations are working together to make significant positive changes to urban neighborhoods at five New York City sites participating in the Growing Up in Cities program.
Up to 4,000 people of all ages are expected in Ithaca this summer to indulge in the smorgasbord of classes, conferences and other programs that makes Cornell one of the nation's hottest destinations for summer study. The theme of Cornell Summer Sessions '97, "Language: Communication and Understanding," was chosen to coincide with a major six-week linguistics institute being hosted at Cornell for the first time.