The Cornell Department of Astronomy will present a public lecture next week by Columbia University astrophysicist Malvin A. Ruderman, this year's Thomas Gold Lecturer.
A $2,245,997 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will provide fellowships for 12 Cornell graduate students each year over the next five years in a new interdisciplinary program on nonlinear systems.
To acknowledge the contributions of Francille M. Firebaugh, retiring dean of Cornell's College of Human Ecology, alumni, colleagues and friends have endowed a student scholarship in her honor.
Gregory B. Martin has been appointed a joint professor of plant pathology at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. and Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.
'Change in the Global System' is the theme for a series of lectures and exhibits Oct. 10-17 when the Cornell Department of Geological Sciences and the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) celebrate national Earth Science Week.
Stanford University biologist, author and science popularizer Robert Sapolsky will speak on 'Stress and Neurodegeneration: Interventions at the Molecular Level; Interventions at the Societal Level.'
Cornell's Student Chapter of the American Veterinary Medical Association, or SCAVMA, plans a fund-raising dog wash on Saturday, Oct. 3, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
A major exhibition about the literary career of Laura (Riding) Jackson will open Oct. 8 in the Exhibition Gallery of the Carl A. Kroch Library on the Cornell University campus.
Displaying the magnificence and grace of 1874 Victorian landmark outside, Sage Hall - the new home of the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell - is, inside, a state-of-the-art, fully networked management education center.