ITHACA, N.Y. -- Corn in all its forms will be celebrated Sunday, Sept. 28, from 1 to 4 p.m. when Cornell Plantations stages the first Judy's Day with educational and fun-filled activities for kids and their families. The festival, "Corn, the A-Maize-ing Grain," is open to the public free of charge, rain or shine. Activities are planned for Emerson Garden, the historically named "Corn Hollow" area near Plantations headquarters where Barbara McClintock's Nobel Prize-winning research was conducted and where teaching about corn continues today.
Internationally known novelist Don DeLillo, who rarely makes public appearances, will read from his work Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in Cornell's David L. Call Alumni Auditorium.
The Cornell Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City on Thursday, Sept. 11. The meeting will be held in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St., at 2 p.m.
Roll up your sleeves. The United Way of Tompkins County is kicking off its 1997 campaign Sept. 17 with a "Day of Caring," which could become a new tradition.
Proving that even minor planets can survive cosmic fender-benders, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a large crater -- with an estimated diameter of 285 miles and about 8 miles deep -- on the asteroid Vesta, according to an article published in today's issue of the journal Science (Sept. 5).
For 21 years, Cornell's Information and Referral Center has answered questions as varied as "What's the elevation of Cornell?" and "How do I get a new ID card?" to "When is graduation in 2001?" On Sept. 8, the IRC will officially add Cornell directory assistance to its mission, providing student, staff, faculty and departmental telephone numbers to thousands of callers each day.
Harold Gould and Lea Shampanier Gould, Cornell graduates and distinguished stage, television and film actors, will star as Willy and Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman, to be presented Sept. 18-20 and 25-27 in the Proscenium Theatre of the Center for Theatre Arts.
As never before, girls are maturing earlier and have become so preoccupied with their bodies that they spend much of their energy managing and maintaining their looks at the expense of their creativity and mental and physical health, says a new book by an award-winning Cornell historian.
Twenty years ago, when the Public Utility Regulatory Policy Act was written and large central-station steam-turbine facilities were the best way to generate electricity, no one expected the technological development of the small-scale, super-efficient, combined-cycle gas turbines that independent power producers and many utilities use today.
"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.
Kristin G. Esterberg, a Cornell alumna and author ofLesbian & Bisexual Identities: Constructing Communities, Constructing Selves, will speak Saturday, Sept. 27, at 4 p.m. in the Founder's Room of Anabel Taylor Hall.
