The Hermanos of La Unidad Latina/Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity Inc. of Cornell and the Latino Civic Association of Tompkins County are hosting the Fourth Annual Latino Street Festival.
"I don't want to be confused with being the author of a cookbook," said Cornell Professor Steven L. Kaplan, who travels to Italy Sept. 6 to accept the Langhe Ceretto Prize.
Researchers have long suspected that the chemistry of the brain largely influences personality and emotions. Now, a Cornell clinical psychologist has shown for the first time how the neurotransmitter dopamine affects one type of happiness, a personality trait and short-term, working memory.
U.S. Rep. Maurice D. Hinchey (D-N.Y.) will present the welcoming address to scientists and foresters attending an agroforestry conference hosted by Cornell University on Sunday, Aug. 3, at 6 p.m., in Trillium Dining Hall, Kennedy Hall, on the Cornell.
Cornell alumni will revisit their alma mater the weekend of Sept. 20-22 for Homecoming 1996, the university's annual fall celebration featuring educational, athletic and social events for all members of the Cornell community.
Three renowned speakers -- a historian, a psychoanalyst and a geophysicist -- will visit the this month and next as A. D. White Professors-at-Large, giving public lectures.
Native Americas, a journal published by Akwe:kon Press at Cornell's American Indian Program, shared the top honor -- General Excellence -- with Tribal Colleges magazine in the Native American Journalists Association's annual awards, presented in Minneapolis June 20.
M&T Bank is offering a full scholarship to Cornell's Summer College, one of the nation's first summer programs for high school students. High school juniors and seniors from Broome, Cortland and Tompkins counties are eligible for the M&T scholarship, which is worth $5,100.
A collaborative workshop drawing from the disciplines of art, science, and computing will be held April 20 and 21 to launch Cornell Library's sponsorship of the Internet art journal Ctheory Multimedia , a semi-annual collection of electronic art and theory to be published this spring.
Cornell graduates Harold O. Levy, '74, '79 JD, and Randi Weingarten, '80, are more accustomed to meeting over bargaining tables than dinner tables. But on April 19, these two distinguished alumni -- and friends -- will meet as guests of honor at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.