This is one student takeover that administrators don't mind. Students in the Cornell School of Hotel Administration will be given the keys to Cornell's Statler Hotel this weekend to operate the 150-room property on their own from April 19-21.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Some pundits are predicting that Ralph Nader could be President Bill Clinton's nemesis come November. Members of the Cornell University and Ithaca communities can make that judgment for themselves on Tuesday, April 23, at 8 p.m., when the consumer advocate, lawyer and presidential hopeful gives a lecture in Cornell's Bailey Hall. Tickets are $3 for Cornell students and $5 for the general public and are on sale at the Willard Straight Hall box office. According to recent editorials in The New York Times and Time magazine, Nader, who has announced his intention to run for president on the Green Party ticket, could cost Clinton much-needed votes in California -- and thereby hand victory in that critical state over to Republican challenger Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan).
Cornell's Department of Computer Science will celebrate its 40th anniversary Oct. 1 with a symposium featuring several alumni who now hold prestigious positions in industry and academia.
Cornell's Department of Materials Science and Engineering marked 40 years with a daylong symposium Sept. 20 titled 'Materials Science and Engineering in 2020.'
New high-resolution images from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft comparing the ice caps at the red planet's north and south poles show the difference between the two regions is the 'cheese.'
Leaders of the international trend toward "greener" corporations will speak in an eight-part seminar series at Cornell titled "Industrial Ecology: Connecting Business and the Environment." The seminar series began Feb. 14 with a presentation by Andrea Farrell, chair of the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable.
This year, for the first time ever, the prestigious Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lecture Series will be an interactive teleconference between two of the leading architectural design programs in the United States: Cornell's Department of Architecture, which manages the series, and Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
A Cornell University research team has uncovered the mechanics of a critical reaction in the combustion of hydrogen that could have implications for the future of energy production.
Harry Potter fans and bird enthusiasts from all walks of life are invited to help track "Harry Potter's owl" and other birds Feb. 15-18, in the fifth annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC). A project of Audubon and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology with sponsorship from Wild Birds Unlimited, the GBBC asks everyone with an interest in birds -- families, individuals, classrooms, community groups -- to count the numbers and kinds of birds they see during any or all of the four count days. They can count in their backyards, schoolyards, local parks, nature centers, even at the office. (January 28, 2002)
Cornell University has created its first permanent, temporary-use office space that will accommodate various campus offices as needed. The housing is at Surge 1, at the entrance of the Cornell Plantations off Forest Home Drive. The first tenants are two centers displaced when the north wing of Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, the home of the College of Human Ecology (CHE), closed in July 2001 due to structural problems. The two centers, the Family Life Development Center and the Bronfenbrenner Life Course Center, were then temporarily housed in the original Mann Library building. (November 19, 2003)