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.
Franoise Gaspard, professor of sociology at the famed Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (School of Higher Education in Social Sciences) in Paris, will give two free and open lectures Oct. 21-22 at Cornell on women in politics in France.
Cornell Plantations staff members invite the Ithaca community and visitors from far and near to visit the campus gardens and natural areas to enjoy a colorful, dynamic landscape as it changes to its autumn wardrobe.
Cornell Police reports that a 24-year-old, female Cornell student was the victim of a strong-arm robbery early this morning on a footbridge leading from the campus to Collegetown.
To launch the new Anne Evans Estabrook Distinguished Lectureship in Conflict Resolution at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), Associate Professor Elizabeth Mannix of Columbia University's Graduate School of Business will give a talk.
As the Arecibo Observatory is used to scan the cosmos for extraterrestrial life, the observatory itself has become a source of life sustenance in the aftermath of Hurricane Georges.
