The Kingsbury commission, appointed by Cornell University Provost Don M. Randel, announced today (April 2) the results of the necropsy of the unidentified object removed from Cornell's McGraw tower on March 13. In a four-word executive summary, the commission found: "It is a pumpkin!"
Women who cook, eat and chat together also improve their diet together, according to a Cornell University study of a cooperative extension program. In fact, women on limited income who participated in the six-week Sisters in Health program reported they ate 40 percent more fruits and vegetables.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and slavery expert David Brion Davis will speak at Cornell Wednesday, April 8, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 165 McGraw Hall in a lecture titled "The Origins and Nature of New World Slavery: Seeing the Big Picture." The lecture is free and open to the public and is made possible by the Walter LaFeber and Joel Silbey Fund in American History, which is sponsoring Davis' visit.
Politicians across the country - and in particular congressmen - are engaged in a frenzied dance of political extortion, extracting payments from constituents for legislative inaction. "It's a shakedown - and it's perfectly legal," says Cornell law Professor Fred S. McChesney.
Jaclyn Engelman explained meteor showers called Leonids. Paul Kleinman talked about analyzing U.S. census data. Joshua Ladau described the peculiar mating habits of crickets. All three are 18-year-old undergraduate freshmen doing paid, sometimes graduate-level research at Cornell.
When Cornell art history Professor Robert G. Calkins was 17 years old, he took a bicycle trip through southern England and France. "I was swept off my feet," he said, by the countryside, the people and the antiquity he saw. Most of all, he was amazed and moved by the great cathedrals of Europe.
"Technology for 21st Century Teaching," offered by Cornell's Office of Distance Learning, will be held Friday, April 3, beginning at 8 p.m. in Room 105 ILR Conference Center, Garden Avenue. There is no registration fee.
Cornell has vigorously reaffirmed its commitment to providing students with the financial aid they need to attend the university and has significantly increased funding -- with some awards boosted as much as 40 percent -- of a major financial aid program, officials announced last week.
John L. Ford, the Robert W. and Elizabeth C. Staley dean of students at Cornell, has been selected as a 1998-99 American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow. The ACE Fellows Program provides in-depth, comprehensive leadership development for senior faculty and administrators in higher education.
Ravi Kanbur, an expert on economic issues facing developing countries, has been named the first Lee Teng-hui Professor of World Affairs at Cornell University. His appointment, effective April 1, 1998, was approved by the Cornell Board of Trustees at its March 27 meeting in Ithaca.
A little talent goes a long way, at least for members of the Savage Club of Ithaca who entertain Cornell alumni at reunion weekend each year. And now these comedians, jugglers, magicians, musicians, songsters, storytellers and all-around good guys from the greater Ithaca area have a new leader.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Until laboratory tests identify sources of a bacterial disease killing songbirds in the East and Midwest, Cornell University scientists say people who feed birds should not blame themselves for the recent outbreak of salmonellosis in redpolls and other flocking species. Nevertheless, three precautions are in order, say experts at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and the College of Veterinary Medicine:
