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ITHACA, N.Y. -- For the first time in textile/apparel education, students from three colleges are using computer technology and the Internet to simulate the way apparel will be designed in the near future: communicating and editing technical and visual information electronically and collaborating via computer with associates at distant sites. To train these students as realistically as possible, apparel designer and principal investigator Susan P. Ashdown, professor in Cornell University's textile and apparel department, is inviting input from apparel textile designers and apparel designers/merchandisers to consult on current and future needs of the industry, assist in developing realistic scenarios for the project and help assess outcomes of the project. cad.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- For now, the epizootic that killed a third of the lions in Tanzania's Serengeti National Park is under control, according to the Cornell University veterinarian who pinned the fatal outbreak on canine distemper virus (CDV). But veterinarians and conservation biologists must remain vigilant, said Max J.G. Appel, professor of microbiology and immunology at Cornell's Baker Institute for Animal Health, because the dog disease is on the move, turning up in unrelated species and unexpected places. "Canine distemper virus was not supposed to be a major problem in Africa because of the sun and heat," said Appel, noting that CDV is spread through the air in respiratory secretions from infected animals, and that the fragile virus usually does not survive more than a few minutes in open air. Once Appel and Cornell veterinary pathologist Brian A. Summers discovered evidence of CDV infection in lion tissue samples sent from Tanzania, the disease's path was traced: The Serengeti lions are thought to have been infected by spotted hyenas, which share food with lions and which may have been infected by free-roaming domestic dogs around the national park. distemper.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The future of information technology -- from wireless communications to new imaging systems -- is the topic of the 1996 Cornell Society of Engineers annual conference April 12 and 13 at Cornell University. Called "This Is IT: Information Technology at Cornell and Beyond," the conference will highlight research in the rapidly developing field of information communications. Featured will be speakers from the Cornell faculty and from industry, including a keynote address by William L. Schrader ('74, MBA '84), a Cornell alum recently featured in Time magazine as an "Internet mogul" and multimillionaire. Schrader helped run the Cornell Theory Center after graduating and founded PSINet in 1990, a firm that provides Internet access to businesses and individuals. Engconf.ltb.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- To help Northeast consumers choose foods that are not only healthful but also regional and seasonal, Cornell Cooperative Extension offers the new Northeast Regional Food Guide. Eating locally supports farmers and the local economy, protects natural resources and preserves regional farmland, said Jennifer Wilkins, Ph.D., R.D., senior extension associate in Cornell University's Division of Nutritional Sciences and author of the materials with Jennifer Bokaer-Smith, nutrition graduate student. The complete set of materials includes eight fact sheets and a food guide pyramid on a 19-by-28-inch color poster. NEregional.food.ssl.html

Pieces of the moon, Mars, Mercury or Venus could land on Earth -- and vice versa ITHACA, N.Y. -- Planets and their satellites in the inner solar system -- including Earth -- have been sharing bits and pieces of themselves for billions of years, as even today rocks and particles shorn off from ongoing collisions continue their interplanetary voyage, new research shows. planetary.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Seven locations in the Northeast set snowfall records for the winter season, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University. Records fell in New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Hartford, Conn., Providence, R.I., Dulles Airport, Va., outside Washington, D.C., and Charleston, W.Va. snowmarch.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- A major reason why maltreated children do worse in school than nonmaltreated children may be because their families move much more frequently and they change schools often, according to a recent award-winning Cornell University study. The study found that during their school years abused and neglected children move, on average, twice as frequently as other children. Previous work by the Cornell researchers had found that maltreated children do significantly worse in school and have many more discipline problems than children who are not abused or neglected. mobility.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- To help reduce pesticide use in European apple orchards, growers in Romania can now grow scab-free fruit without having to rely entirely on chemical solutions. Thanks to cooperation between Romanian scientists, Cornell University and Cornell's Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y., the scientists started a project to grow scab-free apple varieties developed by Romanian apple breeders to resist the scab, which causes a rough-shaped lesion on the fruit. Romanian.apples.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted a one-year approval for a novel plant protectant that has been tested at Cornell University as a seed coating for onions. This new treatment promises to help save New York's onion crop, providing that it can gain full approval for use beyond 1996. New York onion growers may use Trigard on onion seed this growing season to combat the onion maggot, according to integrated pest management experts at Cornell's Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y. trigard.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- In Cornell University's Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, scientists are artificially inducing disorder where none occurs naturally, in one of the most unusual states of matter ever created -- superfluid helium-3. This fluid is in a unique state that allows it to flow without resistance. Understanding its properties in this disordered state could help understand the basic mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity. In work led by Jeevak Parpia, Cornell professor of physics, researchers are using aerogels -- weblike structures of glass almost as light as air -- to change the properties of the liquid helium-3. "This is a unique opportunity to alter the fluid's properties," Parpia said. "In the past, confinement in a variety of powdered materials or even between closely spaced slabs has led to a rapid breakdown of the superfluidity of the helium-3." st.aerogels.ltb.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Most vacationers complain to the travel agent when deadly spiders infest their warm weather getaway. Maydianne C.B. Andrade is delighted. The Cornell graduate student spent January in the blazing heat of Western Australia, painting color codes on redback spider legs by day. At night she donned a head lamp to watch one of the most extreme forms of self-sacrifice in the animal kingdom. That's how she found (and published in the Jan. 5 issue of Science) the solution to a long-standing puzzle in evolutionary biology: the adaptive advantage of male complicity in sexual suicide and cannibalism. At last, letting oneself be eaten during mating makes sense, in an adaptive sense. st.cannibal.hrs.html
Photo: Andrade feeding spider

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Clothes come in special sizes for wide women, short women and young women, but none are specially tailored for older women whose body changes include a forward head and neck angle, forward shoulder roll, back curvature, increase in girth and a decrease in height. To help develop clothing that would give older women a better fit, two Cornell University apparel designers have developed an objective way to analyze fit among older women and create appropriate alternatives in pattern shapes. st.olderfit.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- A Cornell University researcher crossed three varieties of yellow onion trying to find a line of higher-yielding plants, but instead came up with something unexpected. While he shed tears, they were tears of joy: The researcher, Thomas W. Walters, Ph.D., had stumbled onto a sweet, pink onion. But, let's not mince words: The New York Sweet Blush variety is still in the commercial breeding process, said Walters, the Cornell plant breeder who discovered the onion by chance, and not yet ready for grocers' shelves. "Before onions were domesticated, they were probably pink and later bred to be yellow," Walters said. "Previous societies would have bred them that way because they probably preferred the yellow color." st.pinkonion.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Imagine a school lunch program with entrees containing only 6 percent of calories from fat, almost completely based on nutrient-dense USDA commodity plant foods such as dried beans, lentils, bulgur wheat and brown rice, and -- here is the hard-to-imagine part -- is readily eaten by children. Yet such food is being served -- and consumed -- in six schools across the nation, thanks to a pilot program developed at Cornell University. st.schoollunch.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Watch some wine-tasters contemplate their choice and you might think flavors take forever to register in the brain. In fact, humans can make taste-dependent decisions after as little as 50 milliseconds (50 thousandths of a second) of tasting, research at Cornell University is showing. That's a good thing, says sensory physiologist Bruce P. Halpern, Ph.D. For a while it looked like even rats made up their minds faster than humans. st.taste.hrs.html
Photo of testing setup

ITHACA, N.Y. -- If hydrogen molecules could be pressured into transforming themselves into a metallic phase, would that material be a useful high-temperature superconductor? A Cornell University theoretical physicist posed just such a scenario in 1968. Now, almost 30 years after surmising it, he may be proved right. hydrogen.ltb.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The brutal cold of early February cancelled out unusually warm temperatures late in the month, making the temperatures close to normal in the Northeast, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University. "As was the case in January, these temperature extremes cancelled each other out, producing a monthly average temperature that was just 0.4 degrees warmer than normal," said Keith Eggleston, regional climatologist at the center. Late in the month, temperatures rose into the 70-degree range across much of West Virginia, and southern portions of Maryland and Delaware. Washington National Airport reported a high temperature of 72 degrees on Feb. 25 -- the warmest temperature since Nov. 3, 1995. nrccfeb96.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- A diet based on wheat foods such as pasta, bread and cereal may be contributing to this nation's soaring rates of diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and coronary heart disease, according to a new Cornell University study. On the other hand, rice-based diets, and to a lesser extent fish and green vegetables, appear to lower the level of blood values associated with the risk of these diseases. rice.wheat.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Adults and children can make an acid-base indicator to test foods, read a book about a rabbit gardener and then sprout a kidney bean, or test several foods for fat using a paper towel. These activities are examples from two new Cornell Cooperative Extension publications that combine fun, food, nutrition and science experiments for parents, teachers, 4-H club leaders, scout leaders and other adults to do with children ages 5 to 12. sciandkids.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- When their veterinarian said Shasta could die within the year, the Hoffmans were devastated and they faced a tough decision. Should they give up the 6-month-old German shepherd for research into a canine disorder that may parallel some forms of human Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)? Or should they let their own kids enjoy the seemingly healthy puppy while she lived? Cardiac arrhythmias in sleeping dogs are pointing to one possible cause of SIDS in humans. Researchers at the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University have found that some German shepherds have an inherited abnormality that predisposes them to sudden death at an early age.sids.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Amos Webber (1826-1904) perhaps never intended there would be a biography written of him. After all, his life as a black man born free in the North, as a Civil War soldier, as a servant and janitor was the not an experience that captured headlines. His was a life that could be overlooked easily by historians and others who document America's past. But Webber did intend for someone to read about his life, for he wrote more than 2,000 pages worth of his thoughts and views on 19th-century American life. AmosWebber.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Applications for admission to Cornell University for fall 1996 have reached the third-highest level in the institution's history, a 2 percent increase over last year. Applications from underrepresented minority groups, with the exception of Native Americans, also increased over last year to be at or near the highest levels for these groups in the past decade, reports Donald A. Saleh, Cornell acting dean of admissions and financial aid. Overall, applications from all ethnic groups are up 5 percent over last year (2,071 compared with 1,972). Applications.lgk.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Mary F. Berens, a 1974 graduate of Cornell University, has been appointed director of alumni affairs at the university, said Inge T. Reichenbach, vice president for alumni affairs and development. Berens succeeds James D. Hazzard, a 1950 Cornell graduate. Berens.jkp.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Good news for the New York state agricultural industry: family farms are being helped, thanks in large part to FarmNet, a state-funded, Cornell University-based program. The number of financial distress calls to the program has markedly dropped, but the number of financial planning requests has increased, according to the annual statistics released by the program. There was also a substantial increase in the number of calls, overall. "FarmNet is the only source that farmers have that they can refer to for unbiased help," said Metford Frost, Onondaga dairy farmer and board member of the Onondaga County Farm Bureau. "It's keyed to farm needs and sorting out the problems and then looking at the alternative solutions." FarmNet96.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Bruce Ganem, the Franz and Elisabeth Roessler Professor of Chemistry and chair of the Chemistry Department at Cornell University, has received the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award from the American Chemical Society (ACS). The award, which includes a $25,000 unrestricted research grant, recognizes and encourages excellence in organic chemistry. ganem.ltb.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Five individuals who have dedicated their lives to feeding and housing the homeless will participate in a lecture series this spring at Cornell University. The lecture series is part of Cornell's Housing and Feeding the Homeless Program, which began in 1988. The program, offered through the School of Hotel Administration, provides students with opportunities to work in classrooms, temporary and transitional shelters and food banks that distribute surplus, discarded and nonmarketable food to social service agencies. homeless.dg.html

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Investments in research and education are essential for the nation's well-being and budget priorities should reflect that, a Cornell University engineer told a congressional panel today (March 6, 1996). "There is no investment that is more essential for our nation's future well-being than investments in research and education," John E. Hopcroft, the Joseph Silbert Dean of Engineering at Cornell University, told lawmakers. "If we do not build on the achievements that science and engineering research have made possible, we may well jeopardize the momentum we have built since World War II." hopcrofttest.ltb.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Charles E. Palm, Cornell University dean of the College of Agriculture from 1959 to 1972 and the university's first Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Agricultural Sciences, died Feb. 25 at the Cayuga Medical Center in Ithaca. He was 84. As a true leader and innovator in many scientific and academic fronts, Palm's efforts led to an expanded role for entomology and the science of integrated pest management as well as the broadening the college's educational goals. OBIT.Palm.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- When Maureen Quigley receives her master's degree in public administration from Cornell University this May, she'll be updating her passport as well as her rŽsumŽ. Quigley, a student of international development policy in Cornell's Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA), has received a Luce Scholarship, which will fund a one-year internship in Asia to be arranged specifically for her. She is one of 18 Luce Scholars chosen this year from approximately 60 U.S. colleges and universities, and the 10th from Cornell since the scholarships were first awarded in 1974. quigley.jg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Anthony Seeger, curator of the Folkways Collection and director of Folkways Recordings at the Smithsonian Institution, will make his third visit to Cornell University on March 24-29 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large. On Wednesday, March 27, he will give a public talk entitled "From the Suy‡ Indians to the Grateful Dead: 'Thanks,' " at 4:30 p.m. in the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall. Seeger, one of the world's foremost ethnomusicologists and folklorists, will discuss the Amazon Indians' struggle to preserve their environment and culture, and their support from nonprofit organizations, including one founded by former members of the Grateful Dead. seeger.jg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- John Guckenheimer, Cornell University professor of mathematics and of theoretical and applied mechanics, was selected president of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). He will begin his two-year term in January 1997. Guckenheimer also is director of research at the Cornell Theory Center (CTC) and director of the Center for Applied Mathematics. His selection was a "singular honor, well deserved," according to Malvin H. Kalos, director of the Theory Center. SIAM.ltb.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Glenn Altschuler encounters it a lot these days: the fear among undergraduate students, particularly in the liberal arts, that they won't be sufficiently "marketable" upon graduation. In response, the dean of Cornell University's School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions and other administrators and faculty have created the Summer Program in International Business, an eight-week curriculum that will give students in fields ranging from anthropology to electrical engineering a hands-on introduction to the business world. The program will run from June 2 to July 27 under the direction of Jonas Pontusson, associate professor of government and a well-known political economist. summerbusiness.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The boom in telecommuting is just a transition toward a future total-workplace system of where work gets accomplished. New sites range from the car, home and home office to hotels, offices of business alliances, neighborhood telebusiness centers, empty warehouses, banks and storefronts, airline clubs and perhaps even local cafes. That is according to Franklin Becker, an organizational ecologist and Cornell University professor of human-environment relations who will speak on the changing workplace at Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management European Symposium, "The Workplace Revolution" in London on March 16. Symposium.Becker.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Technological advances will continue to have profound effects on manufacturing firms. But the most important changes will come in the ways companies manage their supply chains and inventories, said L. Joseph Thomas, professor of manufacturing at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management. Such changes require a major investment, he added, but those companies that come to it late are going to be left out. Thomas will be a featured speaker at "The Workplace Revolution," a Johnson School-sponsored symposium in London on March 16. Thomas will discuss "Information Technology and the Manufacturing Firm: Work and Competition in the Next Decade." The symposium begins at 8:45 a.m. at the Four Seasons Hotel (formerly Inn on the Park) on Park Lane. Symposium.Thomas.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University's voice just became a little clearer on the radio. Cornell News Service and Media Services have completed the installation of ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network) service, which provides a high-fidelity telephone link to radio and television stations and networks worldwide. ISDN has become the technology of choice for National Public Radio (NPR), the British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC), the Canadian Broadcasting Co. (CBC) and most commercial radio networks. Frequently, when you hear a radio interview that sounds as if the subject and the interviewer are sitting in the same studio -- they may not be. An ISDN connection, transmitting CD-quality sound over ordinary telephone lines, just makes it sound that way. That makes Ithaca, N.Y., just as good a place to be as New York City, Washington, D.C., or San Francisco. ISDN.bs.html

KENNETT SQUARE, Pa. -- Experts in ecology, landscape architecture and horticulture will join staff members of Cornell University Plantations April 13 at Pennsylvania's Longwood Gardens for a day-long exploration of the "living museum" and "classroom without walls" that embraces one of the nation's most beautiful college campuses. "Exploring the Living Museum of Cornell University," a multimedia presentation for university alumni and guests, will introduce the new Cornell Plantations Path. Cornell faculty members will explain how they use unique resources of the campus as an outdoor laboratory and classroom for teaching and research. Longwood.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Alan G. Merten, the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean of Cornell University's S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, has been named president of George Mason University in Fairfax, Va. He will take office July 1. Merten, who also holds an appointment as professor of information systems, has served as dean of the Johnson School since 1989. Merten_leaves.dg.hnd.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Nominees for the 1996 Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony are now being accepted by the Dean of Students Office at Cornell University. The $5,000 annual prize was established last year by Trustee Thomas W. Jones and was presented at an award ceremony in the A.D. White House on Thursday, May 4. Participating in the ceremony were Jones, President Emeritus James A. Perkins, then-President Frank H.T. Rhodes and Dean of Students John L. Ford. PerkinsPrize.lgk.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Project 2000, Creating a Best Managed University, a strategy for organizational change designed to make Cornell a model for effective university administration and to enable the university to target its resources on academic excellence, has been announced by Cornell University President Hunter Rawlings. Rawlings said Project 2000 will be part of a larger effort to make Cornell's administrative processes more effective and efficient, and to attain financial equilibrium. By reconfiguring the way Cornell conducts its business, he said, Project 2000 will allow the university to concentrate more fully on its core mission of teaching, research and public service. Project_2000.jkp.html

ITHACA, N. Y. -- Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has named George Casella, professor of biometrics, Dennis Gonsalves, professor of plant pathology; and Maureen Hanson, professor of biological sciences, as the newest Liberty Hyde Bailey Professors. Liberty Hyde Bailey was among the first of the truly supreme professors at Cornell. Bailey had been recruited to teach here as a professor in 1888 and brought the study of horticulture to the forefront. Until his death in 1954, he disseminated innovative horticultural research information. The professorship was created in 1972 to provide recognition for distinguished faculty within the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences who have national and international reputations in agriculture and related sciences. agendowment.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Jessica Tuchman Mathews, a columnist with The Washington Post and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, will present the 1996 Bartels World Affairs Fellowship Lecture at Cornell University on Tuesday, April 9, at 5 p.m. in Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall. In a lecture titled "New Actors in a New World Order," Mathews will discuss the increasing role of nongovernmental entities in shaping public policies relating to human rights, business and the environment, as national governments' influence diminishes. It is free and open to the public. bartels.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The student-run Cornell University Program Board is presenting "An Evening with Bill Maher" at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 30, in Bailey Hall on the Cornell University campus. Tickets for Bill Maher's Bailey Hall show are $5 for students; $7 for the general public; and are on sale at the Willard Straight Hall ticket office. For further information, call the program board at 255-7132 or e-mail . Bill.Maher.sfm.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- A white-tailed deer on a ledge of a gorge on the Cornell University campus should be left alone to find its way out because a rescue attempt would be too risky -- for both humans and the animal, Cornell and state conservation officials say. The deer, which was spotted March 12 on a ledge halfway down the gorge near the footbridge over Beebe Lake, is healthy and is eating grape vines and drinking water, said Cornell veterinarians who have been monitoring it. deer.ltb.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Training for Wall Street used to mean an MBA degree in finance and a smattering of computer courses. Not anymore. At Cornell University, finance and engineering students are putting financial models and applications to the test on IBM's largest supercomputer, the 512-node Scalable RS/6000 POWERparallel (SP) Systems at the Cornell Theory Center (CTC). Engfinance.ltb.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- It may be that the notorious "glass ceiling" is actually a glass door, but one that women can open only after other women have already done so, says new research by Professor Heather A. Haveman at Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management. Researchers found that even a small increase in the number of women who have passed through that door to a managerial position dramatically increases other women's chances of being hired or promoted into that position. The result: a Catch-22 situation with important implications for the movement of women into management, as well as for the national affirmative action debate. Haveman.dg.mjh.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- With cherry blossoms about to bloom, more than half a million tourists descend on the nation's capital as they do every spring, capturing the beauty and serenity of the 3,500 cherry trees along the Tidal Basin and Washington Monument and Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. Peak bloom is expected April 4-9, with the annual National Cherry Blossom Festival March 31-April 4. But when the cherry trees first arrived in 1910 -- a gift from Japan -- there was little sense of beauty. Instead, the U.S. government burned them in a bizarre display that pitted federal bureaucrats against each other. The goal, according to a new article in a Cornell University journal, was to prevent "ecological imperialism," with President William Howard Taft approving the final order in an effort to prevent Japanese insect pests from infesting America's plants. isis.lb.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell University International Students Programming Board is having a party, and everyone's invited. April 4 through 20, students will host an "International Festival" celebrating Cornell's cultural diversity. Currently, that diversity translates to 2,609 international students (13 percent of the student body) and more than 80 international student clubs, ranging from the African Students Association to Young Italy. secretary_general.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Will there be librarians in the 21st century? Or for that matter will there be books 100 years from now? Alain Seznec, the Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell University and professor of Romance studies, will give his fearless prediction for the future of the library in the information age during a presentation Wednesday, April 10, at 7:30 p.m. at the Philbrook Museum of Art, 2727 South Rockford Road, Tulsa. The presentation is sponsored by the Cornell Club of Oklahoma. szenec_tulsa.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- A white-tailed deer that had been frequenting a ledge in Fall Creek Gorge on the Cornell University campus has left and has not been spotted since Wednesday morning, March 20. Cornell experts in the College of Veterinary Medicine, the Department of Natural Resources and in the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation all agreed that the deer should be left alone to find its way out. Any human intervention was a risk to both the animal, which could have bolted over the edge, and to humans. All the professionals consulting on the situation said that the deer was eating well and was healthy, and probably could find its way out if left alone. deer2.ltb.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Stuart MacDonald Brown Jr., a former Cornell University administrator and professor who was an authority on the philosophy of ethics and political theory, died March 18 at the Reconstruction Home in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 80. He died from complications of a stroke, said his wife, Catherine D. Hemphill. Brown_obit.djg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Lani Guinier, whose nomination by President Clinton for the nation's top civil-rights post was derailed following allegations by conservative members of Congress and the media that she had a radical agenda and favored quotas, will deliver the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Foundation Lecture on Thursday, April 11, at 7:30 p.m. in Cornell University's Statler Hall Auditorium. Titled "Why We Need a National Conversation on Race," the lecture is free and open to the public. Tickets, which are required for the lecture, will be available beginning April 1 at Willard Straight Ticket Office, Sage Graduate Center and the Information and Referral Center in Day Hall. Guinier.jg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Ever since India implemented sweeping economic reforms in 1991, investors and journalists, as well as scholars and students, have been keeping a close watch on its progress. At the end of this month, Cornell University will host a weekend workshop devoted to India's emerging economy and featuring some of the people who are most familiar with it. "Indian National Economic Policy in an Era of Global Reform: An Assessment" will be held March 29-30 in Room 401 of Warren Hall. Free and open to the public, the workshop is being organized by Cornell's South Asia Program with the co-sponsorship of several departments and programs, including the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and departments of economics and city and regional planning. India.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Donald Kagan, a guest scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Hillhouse Professor of History and Classics at Yale University, will give a University Lecture at Cornell University on Monday, April 1, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall. The title of the free and open lecture is "On the Conclusion of Wars as the Foundation for Peace." Kagan.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Colin Rowe, one of architecture's most influential scholars and one of its leading commentators, will be honored with a Festschrift April 26-28 at Cornell University. Rowe, the Andrew Dickson White Professor of Architecture Emeritus, taught at Cornell from 1962 to 1990. He will speak April 28 at 10:30 a.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall. The Festschrift, an academic tribute reserved for noted faculty, will attract scholars and practitioners from across the United States and Great Britain and feature four major addresses, a panel discussion and eight papers delivered by Rowe's former students and colleagues. Many of the activities will examine the teaching of architecture education and urban design, issues of importance to Rowe. Rowe_festschrift.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell African Students Association (CASA) will host a conference on sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa on Saturday, March 30, in Anabel Taylor Hall Auditorium. Free and open to the public, the conference will feature faculty members, some of whom have lived and worked in sub-Saharan Africa, from Cornell's Africana Research and Studies Center and departments of natural resources, agricultural and biological engineering, soil, crop and atmospheric sciences and agricultural resources and managerial economics. Also participating will be Bal Ram Singh, professor of soil science at the University of Norway, and Adenike Ojo, of the World Bank in Nigeria, who will take part in a late-afternoon panel. Sahara.jg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The committee for the 1996 Robert S. Smith Award for community progress and innovation is inviting proposals from community organizations and agencies. Applications are due by April 19, 1996. Established at Cornell University in 1994 through a grant of $100,000 by the Tompkins County Trust Co., the award is named for the bank's former board of directors chairman, who is the W.I. Myers Professor Emeritus of Agricultural Finance at Cornell. Smith.award.sfm.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell University Board of Trustees will meet in Ithaca on March 28 and 29. The Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees will meet from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Thursday, March 28, in the Yale-Princeton Room of the Statler Hotel. A 20-minute open session will be held at the start of the meeting. Topics will include an update on State University of New York (SUNY) budget discussions and discussion of statutory college tuitions and the universitywide admissions and financial aid policy. Trustee.adv.3.28.jkp.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Ruth Chinitz Uris, a Presidential Councillor and longtime benefactor of Cornell University, died March 19 at her home in New York City. Through her husband, the late philanthropist and builder Harold D. Uris (Cornell Class of 1925), Ruth Uris became an active and generous supporter of Cornell and its Medical College. Uris_obit.lgk.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Exotic animals, farm animals, companion animals, working animals and the medical care they receive will be showcased at the annual Open House of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University, Saturday, April 13, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Open House, now in its 30th year, is geared to families and school groups, pet owners and others interested in careers in veterinary medicine. vetopenhouse.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Are young children reliable witnesses in court? How easily are their memories distorted? How can interviewing techniques and repeated questioning affect children's reports of events? What can professionals do to elicit accurate testimony from children?These questions are explored in the new book, Jeopardy in the Courtroom: A Scientific Analysis of Children's Testimony, co-authored by award-winning developmental psychologists Stephen J. Ceci, Ph.D., of Cornell University and Maggie Bruck, Ph.D., of McGill University.Cecibook.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Seven locations in the Northeast set snowfall records for the winter season, according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University.Records fell in New York City, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Hartford, Conn., Providence, R.I., Dulles Airport, Va., outside Washington, D.C., and Charleston, W.Va.snowmarch.html