Olive Tjaden, pioneering architect who designed more than 400 Garden City, L.I., homes, dies at 92

Olive Tjaden, a pioneering architect who supervised the design of more than 400 homes from the 1920s to the 1940s in Garden City, Long Island, including many of that community's grand mansions, died.

Comet Hale-Bopp yields secrets in the infrared, Cornell-NASA investigators say

Infrared measurements of Comet Hale-Bopp by Cornell and NASA investigators are yielding valuable clues about the makeup of the celestial visitor and, perhaps, the origins of the solar system.

Cornell Political Forum to host panel on China on March 31

The Cornell Political Forum, a 12-year-old student organization at Cornell that publishes the award-winning quarterly journal of the same name, will host a panel discussion on China on Monday, March 31, at 8 p.m. in Auditorium D of Goldwin Smith Hall.

UCLA professor to discuss Milton and Spenser on sex and theology, April 7

Debora Kuller Shuger, professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles, will visit Cornell in April to deliver a lecture titled "Glutinous Gums and the Stream of Consciousness: The Theology of Milton's Comus."

Historian of the American West to give three lectures at Cornell

Patricia Nelson Limerick, a professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder and one of the pioneers of the trend known as "New Western History," will deliver three Carl Becker Lectures at Cornell March 31 through April 2. She will deliver the lectures, which are free and open to the public.

Cornell chemist Jack Freed receives APS award

Jack H. Freed, Cornell professor of chemistry, has been awarded the 1997 Irving Langmuir Prize in Chemical Physics by the American Physical Society.

But too many Americans are deep in "drowsy denial," says sleep researcher James B. Maas

More than 80 percent of college undergraduate students are smart enough to take a nap and help restore their mental and physical powers, according to a survey of 802 Cornell psychology students.

Historian and writer Tzvetan Todorov to lecture at Cornell as Clark Fellow

Tzvetan Todorov, an internationally renowned writer and director of research at the Centre National de Recherches in Paris, will visit Cornell  on March 24-28 as a Clark Fellow.

Robert H. Foote, Cornell cloning expert, to testify at NYS Senate hearing on March 13 in New York City

Robert H. Foote, Cornell professor emeritus of animal science and one of the pioneers in cloning, will testify at hearings on cloning before the New York State Senate Committee on Investigation on Thursday, March 13 in New York City.