The Cornell University Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City on Thursday, Sept. 9. The meeting will be held in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St., at 2 p.m.
Marketing materials for Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit have been recognized as among the best in the country by the American Public Transit Association.
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.
Coupling the organic and inorganic, biological engineers at Cornell have demonstrated the feasibility of extremely small, self-propelled bionic machines that do their builders' bidding in plant and animal cells, including those in humans.
To emphasize the role computing is taking across a broad range of disciplines, Cornell Provost Don M. Randel has created the new post of dean for computing and information science. He has appointed Robert Constable.
Cornell students will be able to be a little kinder to the environment when they buy printer paper at the Cornell Campus Store this year. The store now sells only recycled printer paper, and it can be bought for as little as $3.59 for 500 sheets.
Headline-grabbing die-offs of sea life could be just the tip of the iceberg as global warming and pollution allow old diseases to find new hosts, 13 biologists predict in this week's issue (Sept. 3, 1999) of the journal Science.
Apolo Nsibambi, prime minister of the Republic of Uganda, will speak at Cornell on Sept. 7, at 7:30 p.m. in Anabel Taylor Hall auditorium. His talk is titled "Political Conditions for Economic Reform and Successful Adjustment in Africa."
The Clintons, their daughter Chelsea, who toured the New York State Fair in nearby Syracuse. There they visited the Bakers' Chicken Coop eatery, specifically to savor a taste of the famous Cornell barbecued chicken. Robert Baker, Cornell professor of animal science, created the recipe.
The Alumni Association of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University will honor five alumni, a faculty member and a staff member at the association's annual alumni awards banquet.