With more than one-quarter million guns going to school every day and media images bombarding our children with violence-related images, it's little wonder that thousands of American youths are arrested each year for violent crimes.
Professor-at-Large Toni Morrison, Cornell MFA '55, the 1993 Nobel laureate in literature and the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, 'Beloved,' will present a free and open lecture on literature and public life.
Add another jewel to the literary crown of acclaimed poet A.R. Ammons, Cornell University's Goldwin Smith Professor Emeritus of Poetry, who has been selected to receive the 1998 Tanning Prize.
This year Cornell again joins more than 3,000 colleges and universities nationwide participating in National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week, Oct. 18-24.
Are paid advertisements really free speech? "Advocacy Advertising and the First Amendment" will be the topic of a lecture at Cornell University by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, the Walter H. Annenberg Dean of the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communication, Monday, Oct. 26, at 5 p.m.
A tiny, invisible crack in the aluminum-alloy skin of an airplane can sometimes grow into a major crack that causes the skin to tear open in flight. A new research program at Cornell aims to understand how this happens, starting at the level of atoms and working up.
Members of the Cornell Board of Trustees and University Council will arrive on campus Thursday, Oct. 22, for Cornell's annual Trustee/Council Weekend. The annual meeting of the 440-member council and a quarterly meeting of the trustees are scheduled on campus every fall.
Cornell is continuing to rally to the needs of the families of Arecibo Observatory employees in the aftermath of Hurricane Georges with loans, donations and electric power. Distribution of 53 2,500-watt Honda generators has been completed.
Thanks in part to an aggressive new fellowship program, Cornell's Graduate School enrollment shows a healthy increase this fall, boosted primarily by a big jump in doctoral students in the physical sciences and engineering.
To date, 1998 is running ahead of 1953, the Northeast's warmest year on record, according to the climatologists at the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell. If warm temperatures continue in the current pattern through the rest of the year, 1998 may surpass 1953 as the warmest year, says Keith Eggleston.
Two Cornell assistant professors have been awarded David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowships for Science and Engineering, designed to support young researchers.
