Jane Goodall, the world renowned primatologist, will share her breadth of knowledge about chimpanzees, humans' closest relative, in a free lecture titled "Chimpanzees, Humans and Habitats" on Monday, Nov. 24, at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall on the Cornell University campus. As an A.D. White Professor-at-Large, Goodall will spend three days on campus meeting with faculty and students, Nov. 23 through 25.
Health Awareness Week is making a grand return to Cornell University during the week of Jan. 27. The 22nd annual edition of campuswide health-related presentations and educational activities.
Vice President Al Gore and Andrew Cuomo, secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, paid a special visit to Amsterdam, N.Y., Sept. 30 to release a preliminary report on efforts to jump-start the historic barge canal region's stalled economy.
Most African nations remain entrenched in the cultural, legal and other practices of their former British, French or Portuguese colonizers, a generation or more after achieving independence, according to Joan Mulondo, program coordinator of the Institute for African Development at Cornell.
Just one firefly, with its poisonous lucibufagin chemicals, is enough to kill a lizard, a lesson that American zookeepers and pet owners are learning the hard way. Some of the most popular lizards in zoos and private collections are from parts of the world without poisonous fireflies.
More than just dust was kicked up when NASA's Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous spacecraft, NEAR Shoemaker, made a successful landing on asteroid 433 Eros on Feb. 12. Also disturbed were the memories of an experiment carried out more than three decades ago by a student of Thomas Gold, professor emeritus of astronomy at Cornell.
An annual rite of spring on the Cornell campus is the screening of student films. This year, there's some Mike Figgis, Quentin Tarentino, Silence of the Lambs, a tip of the hat to Disney and plenty of action to make audiences…
Barclay G. Jones, Cornell professor of city and regional planning and regional science who was a noted expert on protecting historic structures from earthquake damage and on the social and economic devastation of national disasters, died May 26 at Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca, N.Y.
That alliance is the theme of a conference that will be held at Cornell April 11-13, titled "History and Memory: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference." All programs are free and open to the public and will be held in the A.D. White House.
In September at the United Nations, President Clinton and leaders of four other superpowers signed the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, prohibiting the testing of nuclear devices around the globe. As of January, 140 nations had signed on.