Nine Cornell students and an Ithaca high school student have been selected to compete in a NASA competition aimed at involving universities in the human exploration of space.
Step aside, Cookies-n-Cream. Move over, Neapolitan. It's time to hit the (Rocky) Road. For their winning project in Food Science 101, eight Cornell students have developed an ice cream flavor with an evocative name, Sticky Bunz.
Area 10th-grade students participating in the Access to College Education Program (ACE) will have the opportunity to learn about the hospitality industry firsthand Friday, Dec. 11, at Cornell. Eighty students from school districts in Tompkins and Cortland counties will attend the conference.
In the first 6 1/2 days of December, more than 100 high-temperature records were broken or tied in the major cities of the northeastern United States. With the average temperature between Dec. 1 and Dec. 6 at about 15 degrees Fahrenheit above normal.
Cornell's Campus Store is sponsoring a canned food drive Dec. 7 through Dec. 18. Faculty, staff and students may drop off canned and dried food products in the main hallway at the Campus Store.
A memorial service for Mark McKeon, a student in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations who died Nov. 18, will be held on Monday, Dec. 7, in the chapel of Anabel Taylor Hall at 4 p.m. Robert Johnson, director of University Ministries, and the Rev. Michael Mahler will participate in the service.
Cornell President Hunter Rawlings issued the following statement today on administrative changes associated with the Office of the Associate Provost for Human Relations. It was announced Nov. 12 that Winnie Taylor is leaving that post, effective Jan. 1.
Philip Lewis, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Cornell University, and Biddy Martin, senior associate dean of the college, today (Dec. 3, 1998) released a statement about the Latino Studies Program.
The Ion Beam Analytical Facility, part of the Cornell Center for Materials Research, will hold an open house on Dec. 8, from 9:45 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. The public is invited to take a tour of the facility at 150 Bard Hall on the Cornell campus.
The Executive Committee of Cornell's Board of Trustees will hold a brief open session when it meets Dec. 10 at 1:30 p.m. in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St., New York City.
Each year, thousands of people get flu-like symptoms from the buildings they live or work in. Causes range from air pollutants, allergens, pathogens and poor ventilation to exposed asbestos insulation and inadequate light.
Betty Friedan would like to develop a quality of life measure -- let's call it QOL -- similar to economic measures like the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) that we've created to plumb our nation's economic health.