Art critic and historian Donald Kuspit will give a free and public lecture at Cornell on Tuesday, April 23, titled "Dialectics of Decadence: The Weight of History on Contemporary Art" at 5:15 p.m. in Room 115 of Tjaden Hall.
Faculty, staff and students at Cornell University now have full, free and around-the-clock access to more than 400 health and nutrition data sets from the National Center for Health Statistics.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University's fraternity and sorority councils will conduct the 11th annual Collegetown Good Neighbor Day on Saturday, April 27. Activities include cleaning neighborhood sidewalks, streets, utility poles and open spaces. Volunteers will gather at 10 a.m. in front of the Collegetown Motor Lodge, 312 College Ave. From there, teams of students will begin their cleanup effort.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Art critic and historian Donald Kuspit will give a free and public lecture at Cornell University on Tuesday, April 23, titled "Dialectics of Decadence: The Weight of History on Contemporary Art" at 5:15 p.m. in Room 115 of Tjaden Hall. Kuspit, a professor of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, lends his editorial expertise to several prominent journals, including Art Criticism, Artforum, New Art Examiner, Sculpture and Centennial Review.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Walter R. Lynn, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Cornell University, has been named director of the university's Center for the Environment (CfE). A specialist in water-resources planning and a Senior Fellow in the center, Lynn follows James P. Lassoie, director of CfE since 1993. Lynn will serve as director while a national search is conducted for his successor. The universitywide center coordinates interdisciplinary education, research and outreach in seeking new approaches to environmental challenges that are both economically and environmentally sustainable
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Karin Klapper couldn't be happier. The Cornell University senior has just learned that she will spend a year at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem as a Raoul Wallenberg Scholar. Klapper, a communication major in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, was one of 10 American and two Israelis awarded the prestigious scholarship for the 1996-97 academic year. The scholarship is awarded to individuals, most of them graduating seniors, who have demonstrated leadership potential and provides them with full tuition and related costs for a year of study in the Hebrew University Visiting Graduate Program. The scholarship is named for Raoul Wallenberg, the Christian Swedish diplomat who risked his life to rescue Jews during World War II.
To help students, faculty, growers and farmers prosper, Mann Library began providing Internet access to USDA statistical data from the Economic Research Service and the National Agricultural Statistical Service.
Former congressmen Thomas Downey and Rod Chandler will debate the changing role of the federal government in the workplace in Washington, D.C. April 18. The debate, part of a half-day conference sponsored by Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and its Institute for Labor Market Policies.
Researchers for Cornell's Lake Source Cooling project will be collecting information about the proposed land and lake routes over the next 10 days. The data collection is part of the scope of the environmental impact statement and permit applications required by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Back in the old days -- say 1993 -- Cornell University agriculture students surfed the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economics and Statistics System gopher site at the university's Albert R. Mann Library for the latest in crop and farm information. Well, that was then. Now, the USDA site has jumped onto the World Wide Web. It can be found at: . To help students, faculty, growers and farmers prosper, Mann Library began providing Internet access to USDA statistical data from the Economic Research Service (ERS) and the National Agricultural Statistical Service (NASS) about two years ago. These files included crop, livestock and agricultural economic statistics from the United States and other countries. Last year, the system was expanded to include reports from the ERS, NASS, and the World Agricultural Outlook Board (WAOB). These include weekly, monthly, and quarterly forecasts and estimates on crop production, dairy outlooks, wheat forecasts, and many others.
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Former congressmen Thomas Downey (D- N.Y.) and Rod Chandler (R-Wash.) will debate the changing role of the federal government in the workplace Thursday, April 18, in Washington, D.C. The debate, part of a half-day conference sponsored by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations and its Institute for Labor Market Policies, will begin at 8 a.m. at the Hyatt Regency Capitol Hill, 400 New Jersey Ave., N.W. In addition to the former congressmen, Elaine Kamarck, senior policy adviser to Vice President Al Gore, will offer remarks.
