The phrase for spring 1997: Way cool! Mt. Washington, N.H., had its old monthly snowfall record crushed for May by a whopping 43.6 inches, beating the old record of 52.2 inches 30 years ago.
Almost 600 high school juniors and seniors will trade in a summer of work or sun-and-surf for the academic demands of Cornell's Summer College -- the nation's oldest such program, now in its 36th year -- which begins June 28. "The attraction here is to test the waters in an Ivy League institution, to get credit and to practice going to college before beginning freshman year," said Summer College Director Abby Eller.
Some facts (and a little history) about Arecibo. Arecibo Observatory was built in 1963 by the U.S. Air Force under the initiative of Professor William Gordon of Cornell.
The Cornell Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City on Thursday, June 26. The meeting will be held in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York, 6 East 44th St.
Slow childhood growth rates in poor countries aren't necessarily due to a "poor man's diet" devoid of meats and other foods of animal origin, as many scientists and policy makers have long assumed, reported a Cornell nutritionist who is the director of a huge diet and disease study by Cornell in China.f the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine and Richard Peto, professor at Oxford University in England.
Poor rural women who don't always have enough food in their homes exhibit binge eating patterns and are only about half as likely as other women to consume daily the recommended five servings of fruits and vegetables. Therefore, these women are less likely to consume adequate vitamin C, potassium and fiber.
Theodore L. Hullar, the biochemist who served as chancellor of the University of California at Davis and at Riverside in the 1980s and '90s, as well as director of the Cornell Agricultural Experiment Station in the 1980s, will return to Ithaca as director of the Cornell Center for the Environment.
Two of today's most controversial science issues, human cloning and global environmental change, will be debated by Cornell scientists and scholars in a public forum Saturday, June 21, at 1:30 p.m. in 105 Space Sciences Building.
A five-year, $27 million upgrade to the world's most sensitive radio/radar telescope at Arecibo Observatory will be dedicated on Saturday, June 14. The telescope, the world's largest single antenna radio telescope (305 meter, or 1,000 foot) and the world's most powerful radar.
Restoration of land and a slope area on Cornell property along Cascadilla Creek in the Town of Ithaca will get under way in late June. Regrading of the 4-acre area will stabilize the soil and create a more appealing landscape, according to project manager Scott Whitham.