Pet a lamb, milk a cow and see how animal scientists care for a variety of farm animals at the open house at Cornell's Animal Science Teaching and Research Center in Dryden on Saturday, Oct. 4. This free open house will feature tours of the center from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
They go from bugs to drugs. Thanks to the confluence of a new technology in virology and a recent patent in rearing insects, scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc., located at Cornell, have found a better way to produce commercial quantities of recombinant pharmaceutical proteins -- out of insect larvae.
NASA astronaut Daniel T. Barry, a 1975 engineering graduate of Cornell, will describe his experience aboard space shuttle flight STS-72 in a School of Electrical Engineering colloquium planned for Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 4:30 p.m. in 101 Phillips Hall.
Even as American universities are recognized as the best in the world in conducting research and educating new generations of scientists and scholars, they are under attack as never before.
Franois Bujon de l'Estang, the French ambassador to the United States, will visit the Cornell campus Sept. 29 to give an address, visit with students, faculty and administrators and tour the campus.
An annual rite of fall at colleges and universities across the country is Homecoming, the autumn weekend that sends hundreds of alumni in school colors back to their alma maters to renew acquaintances, cheer on sports teams and see what college is really like these days.
A memorial service for Barclay G. Jones, Cornell University professor of city and regional planning and regional science, will be held Friday, Oct. 3, at 2 p.m. in Sage Chapel. Jones died May 26 at the age of 72.
Two European video and digital art experts will deliver guest lectures on the Cornell Oct. 2 and 3 in conjunction with the new Cornell Graduate Program in Film and Video Studies.