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Cornell University Library has acquired a rare set of William Wordsworth's "Poetical Works" (1827), annotated with the poet's largely unpublished handwritten revisions.

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When Internet domain-name registration fees were introduced in 1995, 30 percent of each fee collected was set aside to preserve and enhance the Internet's "intellectual infrastructure." The National Science Foundation (NSF) will use money from the Internet Intellectual Infrastructure Fund to support Internet-related and Next Generation Internet projects. The following are some of the recipients of the funds.

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Zeneca Pharmaceuticals today honors the American winner of its inaugural Psychiatry in Practice Award, one of several activities the company is sponsoring at the American Psychiatric Association's Annual Meeting.

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Allan Tasman, M.D. of Louisville, KY, will take over the presidency of the 40,000 member American Psychiatric Association at the conclusion of the APAís 152nd Annual Meeting on Thursday, May 20, 1999. He succeeds Rodrigo Munoz, M.D., of San Diego, CA.

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The National Center for Atmospheric Research and the United Nations Environment Programme have together received a $650,000 UN grant to help 12 countries build operational, research and educational programs to protect their people and environment from El Nino and La Nina impacts.

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On May 11, the Board of Directors of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) unanimously approved the appointment of Sidney H. Golub, PhD, as the next Executive Director of the Federation. Dr. Golub is a Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the University of California, Irvine.

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Leaders from Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin gathered with First Lady of Illinois Lura Lynn Ryan today to announce the formation of a regional training center on substance abuse and addiction at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Using a $1.3-million NSF grant, an interdisciplinary team of researchers have drawn from research in field as diverse as architecture, computer science and psychology to develop three-dimensional computer models for the "Virtual World Data Server." The team has created complex simulations that may eventually lead to new ways to study problems in fields from urban planning to physics and surgery.

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The University of California, San Diego management team today won the Rochester Institute of Technology/USA TODAY Quality Cup award for its innovative approach to cutting costs, solving problems and increasing efficiency.

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University of Virginia scientists have received nearly $3 million on research that may enhance people's ability to smell, taste and hear again after injury.

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President Clinton has named 208 teachers to receive the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the nation's highest honor for mathematics and science teaching in elementary and secondary schools.

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Former President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn were honored April 27 in Atlanta for their efforts to "wage peace," even as the House of Representatives prepares to vote on the U.S. military role in the Balkan conflict.

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UCSD School of Medicine researchers have been awarded a 5 year, $5.3 million grant by the National Institutes of Health to establish a Center for the Study of Reproductive Biology and Disease.

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Cornell computer scientist Carla Gomes has received three grants totaling $858,782 from the U. S. Air Force to study methods of speeding the computer solutions of problems that involve testing many possible combinations of variables and constraints, such as in scheduling and design of manufacturing systems. Her methods short-circuit problems with "heavy tails," where there may be a vast number of wrong answers.

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The family of the late businessman and philanthropist Bronson Ingram, founder of Ingram Industries Inc., has pledged $56 million to the Vanderbilt University Cancer Center to fight the disease that killed Ingram in 1995.

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has recognized Sea Grant researchers and extension personnel in both Hawaii and New York with presentation of the 1999 NOAA Environmental Hero Award.

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The National Science Foundation announced a three-year grant to the Science & Technology Interactive Center (SciTech) in Aurora, Illinois to disseminate a traveling exhibition, "Midwestern Wild Weather."

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Two teachers have been honored with the first of a one-of-a-kind award for K-12 science teachers.

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The American Nurses Association is launching a comprehensive continuing education program to inform nurses about the unique health concerns of menopausal and post-menopausal women.

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Computing capabilities at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are taking a giant leap forward with the acquisition of an IBM RS/6000 SP supercomputer.

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The National Science Board has named Maxine Frank Singer, Ph.D., president of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, D.C. to receive the 1999 Vannevar Bush Award for lifetime contributions to science and engineering.

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The Patrick Center for Environmental Research of The Academy of Natural Sciences is embarking on a major new project to solve pressing problems facing natural lands of the Fairmount Park system, caused by invasive plant species.

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The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $1.6 million grant to researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center to study rare body-fat diseases.

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A 34-year-old Stanford University professor of chemical engineering and chemistry whose work is leading to the discovery of new drugs to fight infections and diseases has received the National Science Foundation's most prestigious prize for young researchers.

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The University of Virginia is leveraging a gift of 12 Cisco routers from MCI WORLDCOM, Inc. and Cisco Systems, Inc. to fuel a national pilot project to teach students about Internet technology through a new hands-on course in Internet engineering.

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The National Science Foundation has awarded Cornell University $88,183,000 for the operation of the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR) over the next 54 months.

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Chicago middle school students can earn high school credit thanks to the Bulls Scholars Program, an after-school tutoring program created by the Chicago Public Schools and the Chicago Bulls. Launched in January 1999, the program reaches 1,000 7th and 8th graders.

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In recognition of her contributions at the local, state and national levels, a nursing administrator at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center received the "NurseWeek" Nursing Excellence Award in the category Advancing the Profession.

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The National Science Board this week approved plans by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to provide some $21 million to fund 8,000 one-year scholarships of up to $2,500 each to low income students who pursue degrees in computer science, engineering or mathematics.

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Zeneca Pharmaceuticals today began its 1999 tour of "The BREATHE Program"-Bringing Education on Asthma To Homes Everywhere-a national asthma education initiative focusing on families who face the daunting task of managing asthma.

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Texas Tech researchers are preaching the gospel of fire. With a newly created Fire Ecology Center, the scientists hope to inform the public about the benefits controlled burns have for ecosystems and their inhabitants.

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Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., BankBoston Corporation, Cascade Engineering and Seafirst/Bank of America, were today named winners of the Ron Brown Award for Corporate Leadership.

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Scientists will need two detectors the size of Rhode Island to track down the mysterious source of rare but extremely powerful high-energy cosmic rays that periodically bombard Earth. These giant detectors will be part of the new Pierre Auger Observatory.

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AHCPR today announced the initial list of topics that will be evaluated over the coming year by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The list includes four new screening tests as well as eight topics that the Task Force is revisiting because of newly available information.

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The South Asia Program at Cornell University announced the creation of the Rabindranath Tagore Endowment in Modern Indian Literature to bring distinguished South Asian writers to the campus, made possible through a generous gift by Professor Emeritus Narahari Umanath Prabhu and his wife, Mrs. Suman Prabhu.

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A new Cornell University web site provides easy access to massive databases of geological data. Users of the site can just point and click to make maps displaying both geographic and geological information about areas of the world they choose.

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The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Medical Research will receive approximately $35 million from the National Human Genome Research Institute, National Institutes of Health, to participate in the first year of the definitive, full-scale effort to sequence the human gen

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The National Science Foundation has awarded 16 grants, worth a total of $6.3 million, to allow 19 universities to connect to the advanced high-performance computer networks that will constitute the Internet of the future.

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Archivists and computer systems specialists at Cornell University have embarked on an 18-month project to study new record-keeping technologies and recommend ways to ensure that electronic records are preserved for the future.

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The Virtual Cell will allow users to simulate cell behavior on the computer and is being developed by University of Connecticut Health Center researchers.

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The Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research has received a three-year, $7 million grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute to develop chip- based genome sequencing machines that can sequence 7 million DNA letters per day, or 2 billion letters per year.

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Reporters who broke stories of reckless business practices and corruption in politics, health care and the judicial system are among the 13 winners of the 1998 George Polk Awards for excellence in journalism, Long Island University announced today.

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Cornell University geologists will establish 30 temporary seismic-recording stations in eastern Turkey to better understand the collision of continents and the births of earthquakes. The region was selected because it is one of the most seismically active and the youngest continent-to-continent plate boundaries on earth.

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The National Center for Atmospheric Research has sent researchers, instruments, and a C-130 research aircraft to the $25-million Indian Ocean Experiment to study aerosols and climate change.

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Former President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter have been chosen as the recipients of the inaugural Delta Prize for Global Understanding. The Delta Prize was created to recognize groups or individuals for "globally significant efforts that provide opportunities for greater understanding among nations and cultures."

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Hendrix College will receive a $2.8 million gift from Acxiom Corporation and its company leader to help build the Charles D. Morgan Center for Physical Sciences for the departments of chemistry, mathematics and computer science, and physics.

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Cedars-Sinai is taking much of the trauma out of a trip to the ER. A major renovation effort and a progressive approach to pediatric emergency care has resulted in special services, surroundings for the nearly 9,000 children treated in the emergency dept. each year.

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A nurse researcher at the University of Illinois at Chicago, has received a four-year grant from the National Institute of Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism of the National Institutes of Health to conduct the first federally funded study on lesbians' use of alcohol.

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Webster University announced today that it will open a new 50-acre residential campus in Thailand next fall. The new campus will be Webster's seventh international campus and the first operated by a four-year American university in Thailand.

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A University of Missouri-Columbia professor, with the help of a special grant from the National Science Foundation, is hoping to stop buildings from collapsing due to terroists' bombs.