Like the spiders she studies, Linda Rayor -- senior research associate of arthropod behavior at Cornell -- spins webs. Her webs, however, aren't to snag prey but to capture the scientific imagination of people of all ages. Using…
ITHACA, N.Y. -- David Duffield, founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of PeopleSoft, a developer of client/server business software, has been named Cornell University's 1996 Entrepreneur of the Year. Duffield's honor is a highlight of the Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise (EPE) Celebration '96, which will be held April 25 and 26 on the Cornell campus. Duffield, who earned a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and an MBA from Cornell in 1963 and 1964, respectively, will be the guest of honor at a dinner hosted by Cornell President Hunter Rawlings April 25 at 7:30 p.m. in the Carrier Ballroom of the Statler Hotel. Duffield will give a public lecture April 26 at 2 p.m. in Bache Auditorium of Malott Hall.
Bruce Levitt, professor and former chair of Cornell's Department of Theatre, Film and Dance, has been named faculty director of the Cornell Council for the Arts.
Have you any photographs, tools, folk art, clothing or other objects concerning migrant farm laborers that you can lend to Cornell for a traveling exhibition? A team of museum professionals working with the Cornell Migrant Program is collecting materials for a 2,000-square-foot exhibition to inform general audiences about the historic and continuing use of migrant labor in the Northeast from a variety of perspectives.
Do the benefits of free trade outweigh its costs? That question will be addressed in the annual Cornell Political Forum Fall Debate between Ralph Nader and Jagdish Bhagwati.
Nine years of United Nations economic sanctions against Iraq have created genocidal conditions and should be eliminated, Denis Halliday, a former UN official, told a Cornell audience last week.
Historian Michael Kammen's two most recent books are a rare and impressive display of vocation and avocation fulfilled in service to history and to art.
After a barn-burner semi-final match against Singapore, Cornell's Big Red team beat a tough German team to take first place in the Small Robots League in Robocup in Melbourne, Australia.
The President's Council of Cornell Women at Cornell has awarded 17 grants to help advance the careers of women in academia through support of the completion of dissertations and research leading to tenure and promotion.
For more than 10 years, from 1948 until 1959, renowned author Vladimir Nabokov taught at Cornell. Cornell will keep the Nabokov presence on its campus very much alive this fall by sponsoring a Nabokov Centenary Festival.