POSTCARD FROM TEL DOR--Right now, Melissa Loewenstern is in the Iron Age. By summer's end, she hopes to land in the Bronze Age. This Cornell student is spending her summer excavating an archaeological site in Israel.
The West Campus Program Planning Group has recommended that Cornell establish a living-learning council of faculty, students and staff to oversee five self-governed living-learning houses for upperclass students.
Two Cornell undergraduates are among a very select group of students, nationwide, chosen to receive 2003 Rhodes Scholarships for two or three years of study at Oxford University in England.
Applications for admission to Cornell for fall 1996 have reached the third-highest level in the institution's history, a 2 percent increase over last year. Applications from underrepresented minority groups, with the exception of Native Americans, also increased over last year to be at or near the highest levels for these groups in the past decade, reports Donald A. Saleh, Cornell acting dean of admissions and financial aid.
Researchers who work with the incredibly small have long used the scanning tunneling microscope to make pictures of surfaces with such precision that individual atoms appear as bumps. With it, tiny structures can be built by moving one or a few atoms at a time.
A gala two-day event to celebrate the career and leadership of Dale R. Corson, Cornell's eighth president, will be held on campus Dec. 6 and 7. Corson was president of Cornell from 1969 to 1977.
Planners of the new Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, where construction will begin this month in anticipation of a Winter 2002 opening, face a daunting challenge.
Burdensome though it is, the $5.2 trillion national debt never killed anyone. But the national sleep debt is another story, according to Cornell University psychologist and sleep expert James Maas.
The work of Kenneth Evett, one of the Cornell faculty's most prolific artists, will be featured in a one-man show at the Upstairs Gallery in Ithaca Dec. 3 to 28.