Former NASA astronaut Tom Jones will speak at Cornell University March 8 at 7:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall. The talk is free and is open to the public. The subject of the talk, sponsored by NASA's Comet Nucleus Tour (Contour) and the New York State Space Grant Consortium, will be "The International Space Station: Stepping Stone or Block?" (March 1, 2002)
Events on campus this week include a Biotech Open House, yoga at the Johnson Museum, and lectures exploring mycology history at Cornell and hip-hop culture.
Three advanced technologies are about to expand the horizons of health care, speakers at the 12th annual Cornell Biotechnology Symposium, "Frontiers in Biomedicine," will predict on Oct. 15 from 9 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. in the ground floor conference room of the Biotechnology Building at Cornell.
Jessica Tuchman Mathews, a columnist with The Washington Post and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, will present the 1996 Bartels World Affairs Fellowship Lecture at Cornell on Tuesday, April 9, at 5 p.m. in Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall.
In the war against a fungus devastating to grapes, Cornell scientists may have learned mites' real might. To do battle against powdery mildew, Cornell scientists have turned to the shady underworld of wild grapes.
In studying the history of an institution, historians often look back at its administrative records. Today, more and more, those records are being created in electronic form and never even exist on paper.
Sen. Charles E. Schumer will present the Convocation Address during Cornell's Commencement weekend May 27-28. Convocation will be held Saturday, May 27.
Birdwatchers can now report possible sightings of the recently rediscovered ivory-billed woodpecker on a Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology Web site: http://www.birds.cornell.edu/ivory/story17.htm. Birders can also request a reporting form by calling the Cornell Lab of Ornithology at (800) 843-2473.
Thousands of volunteers have a new assignment from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology – documenting the impact of West Nile virus while counting birds for the 2002-03 season of Project FeederWatch.