Rachelle Hood-Phillips, chief diversity officer of Denny's Restaurants, will deliver a talk at Cornell Sept. 26. The talk will take place from 4 to 5 p.m in 305 Ives Hall and is free and open to the public.
Cornell and leaders of the city of Ithaca have reached conceptual agreement on a complex project that would strengthen the Ithaca Commons by bringing additional jobs and sales- and property-tax revenues to downtown Ithaca.
Cornell's Department of Agricultural, Resource and Managerial Economics will hold an in-service income tax school in November to review tax reporting and management.
Peter Neufeld, co-author of Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted (Doubleday, 2000) and an outspoken advocate for the rights of the wrongly accused, will speak at Cornell University Law School.
Mediator and arbitrator Marcia L. Greenbaum will deliver the Jean McKelvey Neutral-in-Residence inaugural lecture at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
The Alumni Association of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University will honor eight alumni at the association's annual alumni awards banquet Friday, Oct. 13.
Seventeen cinematic works and the filmmakers behind them will explore humanity's role in the natural world during the Cornell Environmental Film Festival 2000, scheduled for Oct. 13-19 at Cornell.
Tuition at private colleges and universities has never been higher. It is also likely to keep on going up. With combined tuition, fees, room, board and expenses at the best institutions topping the high-water mark of $30,000 a year and rising, many students cannot attend these institutions without substantial help.
A scientific symposium focusing on genetics and immunology is planned Oct. 9, as part of the 50th anniversary observances at the James A. Baker Institute for Animal Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell.
