For the first time in history, humanity will send a sundial to another planet. Inscribed with the motto "Two Worlds, One Sun," the sundial will travel to Mars aboard NASA's Mars Surveyor 2001 lander.
William L. Maxwell, Cornell University professor emeritus of operations research and industrial engineering, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering. It is one of the highest honors an engineer can receive.
Like the film "Fantastic Voyage," physicians at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center can now take a journey through a patient's body.
'Well-Sweep Herb Farm: Tour of Rare and Unusual Herbs' is the topic Cyrus Hyde, co-owner of the Port Murray, N.J., farm, will address in the 10th annual Audrey Harkness O'Connor Lecture on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at Cornell University.
Cornell's alumni body recently elected Judith C. Areen and Samuel C. Fleming to four-year terms on the Cornell Board of Trustees. They succeed Eleanor S. Applewhaite and J. Thomas Clark on the board effective July 1. Applewhaite and Clark are completing four-year terms as alumni elected trustees.
Peter Galbraith, the U.S. ambassador to Croatia, will discuss the successes and failures of the negotiated peace in the former Yugoslavia in a keynote address during "Making Peace Agreements Work," a two-day symposium beginning Friday, April 25, at the Cornell Law School.
A $40,000 grant from The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation will help the Cornell University Library conserve and catalog some 15,000 historic architectural photographs in the Andrew Dickson White Photograph Collection.
To strengthen the pool of minority executive talent available to corporate America, the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell has launched the "Pipeline to the 21st Century" initiative.
Native Americas, a journal published by the Akwe:kon Press [pronounced ah-GWAY-go] at Cornell's American Indian Program, won five media awards at the 1998 Native American Journalists Association (NAJA).
Disease management programs pay off for congestive heart failure and multiple diseases but not necessarily for asthma, diabetes and depression, says Ron Goetzel of the Institute for Health and Productivity Studies.