New York state voters are increasingly frustrated by gridlock in the two houses of the state legislature, an impasse that results in delayed legislation, late budgets and a seemingly never-ending refrain of raucous debate and recrimination. Is it time to change the whole system?
Representatives from a dozen agricultural universities and research facilities from around the world finished a three-day meeting April 11 at Cornell to hammer out details on an alliance to improve diets worldwide.
Vera Bauer Palmer from Niagara Falls, N.Y., a Cornell graduate student in the Department of English, has received a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for Minorities. Bauer.
The annual Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony at Cornell will be awarded for the third time at a ceremony on April 28, at 3 p.m. at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Orpheus M. Williams, a senior in human ecology and co-leader of Peer Educators in Human Relations will receive this year's $5,000 award.
A recent Cornell graduate and a current junior, both from the College of Arts and Sciences, have just received major national awards: the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies and the Beinecke Brothers Memorial Scholarship.
Peter Galbraith, the U.S. ambassador to Croatia, will discuss the successes and failures of the negotiated peace in the former Yugoslavia in a keynote address during "Making Peace Agreements Work," a two-day symposium beginning Friday, April 25, at the Cornell Law School.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- David A. Hollinger, a professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, will give a lecture titled "The Will to Descend: Culture, Color and Genealogy" at Cornell University on Monday, April 28, at 4:30 p.m. in the Bethe Room, 700 Clark Hall. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will focus on current debates over the relation of culture to ethnoracial classifications and is presented as the 1996--97 Nordlander Lecture in Science and Public Policy, sponsored by Cornell's Department of Science and Technology Studies.
Charles J. Whalen, senior economist with the Institute of Industry Studies at Cornell, is scheduled to testify before the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs on April 23 in Washington, D.C., in support of establishing a two-year budget and appropriations cycle for the U.S. government.
The Cornell University Institute for Animal Welfare has been established to foster discussion and research on issues concerning animals in agriculture, laboratories and the wild.
Richard Rominger, deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will tour Cornell on Friday afternoon, present the keynote address at the Northeast Regional Alpha Zeta Conference on campus on Friday evening.