ITHACA, N.Y. -- Colin Rowe, one of architecture's most influential scholars and one of its leading commentators, will be honored with a Festschrift April 26-28 at Cornell University. Rowe, the Andrew Dickson White Professor of Architecture Emeritus, taught at Cornell from 1962 to 1990. He will speak April 28 at 10:30 a.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall. The Festschrift, an academic tribute reserved for noted faculty, will attract scholars and practitioners from across the United States and Great Britain and feature four major addresses, a panel discussion and eight papers delivered by Rowe's former students and colleagues. Many of the activities will examine the teaching of architecture education and urban design, issues of importance to Rowe.
For the first time in textile/apparel education, students from three colleges are using computer technology and the Internet to simulate the way apparel will be designed in the near future.
Three Cornell undergraduates, all juniors in the College of Arts and Sciences, are winners of the prestigious Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship for science and mathematics.
Clothes come in special sizes for wide women, short women and young women, but none are specially tailored for older women whose body changes can include a forward head and neck angle, forward shoulder roll, back curvature, increase in girth and a decrease in height.
Many people are unaware of the hardships suffered by families in the bottom rungs of society because conventional economic barometers paint rosy economic pictures that mask their plight, says a national authority on child welfare. Child welfare expert says economic indicators hide the multiple stresses faced by poor children in America.
Genetically modified crops containing two insecticidal proteins in a single plant efficiently kill insects. But when crops engineered with just one of those toxins grow nearby, insects may more rapidly develop resistance to all the insect-killing plants.
The Cornell lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community is planning a broad range of cultural and educational programs throughout 'Gaypril.'
Researchers at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and the North American Bluebird Society (NABS) are asking bird-lovers to log on to online and put their birdhouses on the map for the first-ever Great North American Bluebird Count.
Traffic is getting worse every day. Not just on city streets and freeways, but also on the Internet, cellular phone systems and other communication networks. Not only is it hard to get where you're going, it's sometimes hard even to figure out where to go.
High school teachers from across North America and from as far away as Asia will travel to Cornell University to be honored by their former students on May 22. The students, honored as Merrill Presidential Scholars, represent the top 5 percent of Cornell's 1996 graduating class.