Editors' picks for March 13-26 include a book reading for kids, an evening of Kabir music and accompanying documentary, and a lecture on superconductors. (March 13, 2009)
Angela Gonzales, associate professor of development sociology, frequently returns to her childhood home, the Hopi Indian reservation in Arizona, to conduct cancer research and offer education. (Aug. 27, 2012)
Cornell astronomy professor Donald Campbell testified before Congress Nov. 8 on the importance of the Arecibo Observatory's radar system for the identification and tracking of potentially hazardous near-Earth objects. (Nov. 9, 2007)
Cornell will celebrate its 133rd Commencement Sunday, May 27, with President Hunter Rawlings presiding over the ceremony at 11 a.m. on Schoellkopf Field. Rawlings will present the commencement address and confer degrees on more than 6,000 eligible candidates.
English professors discussed the work and influence of poet A.R. Ammons and alumni Thomas Pynchon, Loida Maritza Perez and Manuel Munoz in a scholarly panel on Cornell writers March 4. (March 10, 2009)
Got mocha milk? Get it Friday, Nov. 1, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Cornell University's Appel Commons Courtyard on the university's North Campus. This will be the last stop for the national Milk Rules! Road Trip, sponsored by the National Fluid Milk Processor Promotion Board and Dairy Management Inc. (October 28, 2002)
Applied and engineering physics professor Joel D. Brock describes powerful new X-ray technology, recently tested at Stanford University, in a perspective piece for Science magazine.
"We are all born with an enormous capacity for goodness and we all learn racism and other forms of oppression," says Kathy Castania, a multicultural expert at Cornell University. "We cannot be blamed for learning the racism we were taught, yet we have a responsibility to try to identify and interrupt the cycle of oppression."
Alan Renwick, a senior scientist at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Inc., located on the Cornell campus, will lecture in Marseille, France, Nov. 16, on how plant chemicals change the taste sensation for insects.
Pet owners intrigued by the exotic are getting something extra with their imported iguanas -- exotic forms of Salmonella bacteria that can cause life-threatening illness in humans, Cornell University veterinary researchers are finding.