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Hotel Ezra Cornell April 7-9 is all-star event for hospitality industry's top recruiters

How do the people who run the world's best hotels and restaurants scout out new talent? They come to Hotel Ezra Cornell (HEC) at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration and take careful notes.

Cornell preservation planning students return to Ellis Island to aid second historic building

Last year they stripped away a half century's worth of weeds and overgrowth to reveal the sleeping beauty that was once the Commissioner's House on Ellis Island.

CNN President Richard Kaplan to give public talk at Cornell March 30

Richard N. Kaplan, president of CNN/U.S. of the CNN News Group, will give an address followed by a question-and-answer session, March 30, at 8 p.m. in the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall.

Cornell's updated greenhouse guide shows how to do your plants a fava

Have you ever wondered how to use yellow sticky cards to count whiteflies in a geranium greenhouse? Or, the best way to use fava bean plants to spot the presence of virus-carrying thrips?

Insect flight obeys aerodynamic rules, Cornell physicist proves

The computer-modeling accomplishment - which is expected to aid the future design of tiny insect-like flying machines and should dispel the longstanding myth that "bumblebees cannot fly.

NYU performance studies creator Richard Schechner to visit Cornell as A.D. White Professor-at-Large March 28-April 1

Richard Schechner, founder of the performance studies department at New York University, will conduct theater classes and performances on and off the Cornell campus during his visit as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.

College of Veterinary Medicine's annual open house is Saturday, April 8, 2000 at Cornell

The students, faculty and staff of the College of Veterinary Medicine are inviting the public to the college's 34th annual open house, Saturday, April 8, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Author of influential "Music in the Twentieth Century" was 80

William W. Austin, the Given Foundation Professor of Musicology emeritus at Cornell University, died at his home in Ithaca, March 15. He was 80.

Proposals requested for 2000 community-project grants

The committee for the 2000 Robert S. Smith Award for community progress and innovation is calling for proposals from local community organizations and agencies.

Cornell Theory Center nominated by Michael Dell for Computerworld Smithsonian Awards

An innovative approach to supercomputing at the Cornell Theory Center (CTC) will become part of the Permanent Research Collection on Information Technology at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History on April 3.

Cornell issues dragon warning for Thursday, March 16

Reports of the impending appearance of a dragon on the Cornell campus March 16, have prompted university officials to issue a dragon warning and road closure alert for Thursday afternoon.

As graduation standards get tougher high school dropout rate rises, economists find

In a comprehensive study finds that an average increase in stricter high school graduation requirements results in a 3 to 7 percent jump in the dropout rate.