Three Cornell undergraduates win Goldwater Scholarships for science and math. The national Goldwater Scholarship program was established in 1986’ in the name of former Arizona Sen. Barry M. Goldwater.
Safely back in Ithaca, the 12 students from BioES 400 (Canopy Biology and Canopy Access in the Neotropics) are glad they learned climbing fundamentals on indoor rock before heading up the Virola trees.
That alliance is the theme of a conference that will be held at Cornell April 11-13, titled "History and Memory: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference." All programs are free and open to the public and will be held in the A.D. White House.
Mario Molina, one of three atmospheric chemists to share the 1995 Nobel Prize, will deliver a Chemistry Colloquium at Cornell on April 4 at 4:40 p.m. in Room 200 Baker Lab.
Cornell astronomers, observing what they call "the most boring, average galaxy" they could find, have discovered some unusual mechanics: counter- rotating stars in a spiral galaxy.
