The Cornell Political Forum's quarterly magazine, a nonpartisan political journal produced by undergraduate students, has been honored with a Silver Crown Award by the Columbia Scholastic Press Association.
An increasingly popular commercial corn, genetically engineered to produce a bacterial toxin to protect against corn pests, has an unwanted side effect: Its pollen kills monarch butterfly larvae in laboratory tests, according to a report by Cornell University researchers.
Harvey Golub, chairman and chief executive officer of the American Express Co., will be speaking at Cornell April 23, at 4:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.
While the national observance of Earth Day '99 officially falls on April 22, this year, many Ithaca events are scheduled for Saturday, April 24. So, to coincide with local celebrations marking Earth Day's 29th anniversary, Tcat is offering 25-cent fares.
Cornell alumnus Samuel C. Fleming '62, chairman and chief executive officer of Decision Resources Inc., will deliver the 1999 School of Chemical Engineering Raymond G. Thorpe Lecture.
Charles J. Arntzen, president and chief executive officer of the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, and Gregory D. May, a plant scientist at the institute and adjunct professor of plant biology at Cornell, will receive the 1998 Inventors of the Year award April 23.
Cornell students, including members of fraternities and sororities, and Collegetown residents will clean up the streets of Collegetown on Saturday, April 24.
The fifth annual James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony at Cornell was awarded to the campus Multicultural Living Learning Unit at a ceremony April 7 in Willard Straight Hall.