The Faculty Fellows In Service Program, sponsored by the Cornell Public Service Center and Cornell Vice President for Student and Academic Services Susan Murphy, has awarded financial support to five faculty and community teams to write papers on new initiatives in service learning.
From the 13,000 volunteers who count birds for science in the continent-wide Project FeederWatch, Cornell University ornithologists have collected solutions for birders who prefer to count birds, not squirrels.
Cornell is getting medieval this weekend as it hosts the 17th International Conference of the Charles Homer Haskins Society for Viking, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and Angevin History at the Statler Hotel, Saturday, Nov. 14, through Tuesday, Nov. 17.
Mieke Bal is back by popular demand. Having served as a Fellow of the Society of the Humanities in 1996-97, the founding director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis and professor of the theory of literature at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands returns to Cornell as an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large, Nov. 8-23.
A Cornell youth and work expert is calling for employers of teenagers to obtain "seals of approval" before adolescents can work for them. Parents should be as concerned about where their teenagers work as they are about their schools, because youth employment can have either profoundly positive or seriously harmful effects.
Throughout the next three months, Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (Tcat) will hold a series of public meetings to present route, service and fare recommendations. Over the past year, Tcat has been working closely with Weslin Consulting Services on a service and fare consolidation study.
One of Cornell's most eminent researchers, Edwin E. Salpeter, the James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences emeritus, has been named the recipient of the 1999 Hans A. Bethe Prize by the American Physical Society (APS).
Jay C. Buckey, Jr. M.D., research asssociate professor of medicine at Dartmouth Medical School and a member of the space shuttle Columbia crew on the Spacelab flight from April 17 to May 3 this year, will speak on medical research in space at Cornell on Nov. 10.
The College of Human Ecology at Cornell has established the Hazel E. Reed Human Ecology Extension Professorship in Family Policy in honor of the late Hazel Reed, professor emerita of the college and Cornell Cooperative Extension.
George L. McNew, who was instrumental in bringing the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI) for Plant Research, Inc., to its current site on the campus of Cornell University, died Oct. 30, in Las Cruces, N.M. He was 90.