The possibility of the Earth being struck by comets or asteroids is being given more and more attention by researchers, according to Paul Chodas of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
An Oct. 13-14 symposium, 'Dark and Dusty Galaxies: Galaxy Surveys with Really Gigantic (RG) Telescopes,' was held to celebrate Professor Riccardo Giovanelli's 60th birthday.
Peter Eisenman, world-renowned architect and 1955 graduate of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning, will deliver this year's Preston Thomas Memorial Lectures at Cornell.
Jed P. Sparks, an assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences, has been awarded a Faculty Early Career Development program grant from the National Science Foundation. He will receive five-year funding of $500,000 to support research into foliar uptake of atmospheric nitrogen from the molecular to ecosystems levels. Early Career awards are NSF's most prestigious honor for new faculty members, recognizing and supporting teacher-scholars who are considered most likely to become academic leaders of the 21st century. (April 15, 2003)
Ithaca Tangueros is hosting Tango! a concert and dance performance Saturday, Oct. 30, at 7:30 p.m., in the Statler Auditorium at Cornell. The show includes live tango music and performances by some of the finest Argentine Tango couples dancers in the world.
Events on campus this week include Scottish singer Jean Redpath, CU Winds in concert, 'The Tempest' at Cornell Cinema and a public service lecture by Jane Coyne '88.
An exhibition, 'Lafayette: Citizen of Two Worlds,' which draws on the 11,000-item Lafayette collection housed in Kroch Library, opens Sept. 25. (Sept. 20, 2007)
The seventh Cornell Council for the Arts Individual Grants exhibition opens Jan. 11 at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on the Cornell University campus. The exhibition features the work of nine artists who were awarded the grants in either 1992, 1993 or 1994.