Cornell researcher Geoffrey Coates awarded Packard Fellowship

Geoffrey Coates, a Cornell University assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been awarded a David and Lucile Packard Foundation Fellowship for Science and Engineering, designed to support young researchers.

Sister Helen Prejean, author of 'Dead Man Walking' to speak at Cornell Oct. 24

Sister Helen Prejean, the author of Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the U.S., will give a public lecture in Statler Auditorium on Tuesday, Oct. 24, at 8 p.m.

Cornell Trustees and council members to gather Oct. 26-28

Members of the Cornell University Board of Trustees and Cornell University Council will arrive on campus Thursday, Oct. 26, for their joint annual meeting, which this year celebrates the 50th annual meeting of the council.

Director of Tribal Law and Government Center to present lecture on Iroquois land claims at Cornell Oct. 23

Robert B. Porter, professor of law and director of the Tribal Law and Government Center at the University of Kansas, will present a lecture, "Resolving Iroquois Land Claims," Monday, Oct. 23, at 4:30 p.m. in 290 Myron Taylor Hall.

Cornell scholars to examine Hillary Clinton's Senate run in panel Oct. 23

Whether or not she wins New York state's hotly contested U.S. Senate seat in the upcoming November election, Hillary Rodham Clinton's historic campaign will be examined by scholars not only for its electoral outcome but for what her candidacy and commentary about her reveal about American culture and values.

Corning Inc., Cornell's Johnson School form partnershipto develop intensive e-business curriculum

A $1 million grant from Corning Inc. to Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management will enable the school to develop a total-immersion curriculum in "e-business" and other components of an extensive electronic business program.

TCAT proposes fare and service changes; public meetings scheduled

Faced with unprecedented increases in the cost of fuel as well as the doubling of its liability insurance premiums, the board of directors of Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit has proposed a 25 cent basic fare increase and two service reductions, both of which would go into effect Jan. 1, 2001.

Novelist Loida Maritza Pérez, '87, to speak at Latino Studies Program Eighth Annual Unity Dinner Friday, Oct. 20

Dominicana author Loida Maritza Pérez, a 1987 Cornell University alumna, is the keynote speaker at the Latino Studies Program's eighth annual Unity Dinner Friday, Oct. 20, at 5:30 p.m. in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room.

First Amendment advocate to talk about school vouchers and religious liberty, Oct. 23

Vincent Blasi, a law scholar and advocate and defender of the First Amendment right to free speech, will deliver this years annual Frank Irvine Lecture at Cornell University Law School Monday, Oct. 23.