Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine and the Southside Community Center are co-sponsoring routine health care clinics for pets owned by persons of limited means, one night a month at the center, 305 S. Plain St.
Barbara Herrnstein Smith of Duke University will deliver a University Lecture at Cornell titled "Sewing Up the Mind: The Claims of Evolutionary Psychology," Monday, Sept. 27, at 4:30 p.m.
A bike design and a rape alert system were the big winners at this year's 'Big Idea Competition.' The finalists were chosen at an April 17 event during Entrepreneurship@Cornell's Celebration 2009. (April 23, 2009)
Cornell educators are introducing 12 local fifth-grade students to a world where games are serious and math, science and technology are fun. As part of the Ithaca Youth Bureau's three-week College Discovery Program, the students performed chemistry and physics experiments arranged by the Cornell Center for Materials Research and explored virtual computer worlds in classes at the Cornell Theory Center.
Native Americas, a journal published by the Akwe:kon Press at Cornell's American Indian Program, won six media awards at the 1999 Native American Journalists Association's annual awards held in Seattle in July.
Tibetan monks from the Dalai Lama's personal monastery in Dharamsala, India, will present an evening of ritual dance and traditional Tibetan monastic music, Sept. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Alice Statler Auditorium.
During last week's enervating hot spell in the Northeast, the discomfort was not entirely due to the heat or the relative humidity. The real culprit, say Cornell climatologists, was the high dew point. The dew point is the day-to-day measure of humidity in the atmosphere. Another critical measure is the "design dew point" -- the maximum humidity level at which air-conditioning systems can operate efficiently in different regions.
Diane Frank, D.V.M., co-founder of Clinique Veterinaire Rosemere in Rosemere, Quebec, has been appointed the Friskies PetCare Resident in Animal Behavior at the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine.
As certain clairvoyant groundhogs lead the charge toward spring, Cornell climatologists say that, statistically, the bulk of winter's bad weather already may be behind us as of Feb 2.