Students at the Cornell Law School are assisting attorneys in the appeals of death row inmates. For some, the work has taken them off campus to interview law enforcement authorities, witnesses, former jurors and, in one case, a convicted killer, in hopes of discovering state misconduct that might lead a court to overturn the defendant's conviction or sentence.
Gustavo Aguirre, V.M.D., Ph.D., the Alfred H. Caspary Professor of Ophthalmology, has been selected to receive the World Small Animal Veterinary Association's (WSAVA) International Award for Scientific Achievement for 1998.
A late-model lander and rover, equipped with a Cornell scientific instrument package called Athena, will roam and study a large corridor of the Martian highlands and ancient terrain.
More students than ever before are eating lunch at the Statler Hotel. About 600 students a week have sat down to lunch at the hotel's Terrace Restaurant and Mac's Cafe.
Scratching the surface of wild tomatoes that bugs don't bother, Cornell scientists discovered the plants' chemical secret for repelling insect pests: a complex, waxy substance that commercially grown tomatoes have "forgotten" how to make.
Jane Goodall, the world renowned primatologist, will share her breadth of knowledge about chimpanzees, humans' closest relative, in a free lecture titled "Chimpanzees, Humans and Habitats" on Monday, Nov. 24, at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall on the Cornell University campus. As an A.D. White Professor-at-Large, Goodall will spend three days on campus meeting with faculty and students, Nov. 23 through 25.
"Rain Forest Conservation and the Search for the New Jungle Medicine" is the topic for ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin in the ninth annual Audrey Harkness O'Connor Lecture, set for Friday, Nov. 21, at 7:30 p.m. in the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall at Cornell.
The Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell has developed a special program designed to repay up to $25,000 of student loan debt as a way of helping its MBA graduates pursue entrepreneurial ventures straight out of school.
Intelligence test scores of Whites compared with African Americans, and of the members of high compared with low socio-economic groups, are not growing ever wider. This is contrary to often-reported arguments that Americans are getting dumber because low-IQ parents are outbreeding high-IQ parents.