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Cornell department will host in-service tax school in November

Cornell's Department of Applied Economics and Management will hold an in-service income tax school in central New York state to review income tax reporting and management Nov. 7 to 20.

Don C. Ohadike is new director of Africana Studies and Research Center

Since beginning his five-year appointment as the new director of the Africana Studies and Research Center in July, Don C. Ohadike has worked to enhance the 30-year-old center's position academically as well as socially.

Cornell Cooperative Extension and National 4-H Week will be Oct. 6-13

Cornell Cooperative Extension and National 4-H Week will be celebrated Oct. 6-13 on the Cornell campus. This year's theme is 'Nutrition, Health and Safety.'

New book explores problems of health coverage and income security as aging baby boomers approach retirement

How can the United States ensure that health and income security programs are adequate for an aging workforce as retirement approaches? What risks do older workers face? What if they lose their jobs or become disabled or ill?

Cornell's Liu and O'Rourke join management of NSF engineering network

Two professors in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Philip Liu and Thomas O'Rourke, have been named to the team that will develop a new organization to manage the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEES) during the decade 2004-2014.

Nobel laureate, economist James Mirrlees, to join Cornell panel discussion on "obnoxious markets" Oct. 17

James Mirrlees, winner of the 1996 Nobel Prize in economics, will participate in a panel discussion on the economics of 'obnoxious markets.'

Parents can be stronger forces in the lives of their children, says new book by Cornell child development experts Garbarino and Bedard

Bad things happen to good parents. In a new book, Parents Under Siege: Why You Are the Solution, Not the Problem, in Your Child's Life, Professor James Garbarino and researcher Claire Bedard of Cornell help today's parents regain control of difficult children.

Cornell ILR Dean Edward Lawler receives Cooley-Mead Award

Edward J. Lawler, dean of Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) and a scholar of organizational behavior, is the recipient of the 2001 Cooley-Mead Award.

Temple Grandin, expert on humane animal slaughter, to speak on "Autism and Animal Behavior" at Cornell Oct. 11

Temple Grandin, a Colorado State University assistant professor of animal science who studies the humane handling of agricultural animals, will give a Cornell Lecture Oct. 11.

Patricia J. Williams will discuss race, gender and law as Kops Freedom of the Press lecturer, Oct. 16

Patricia J. Williams, an expert on race, gender and law, will present the 2001 Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture at Cornell on Oct. 16.

Hotel business starting to rebound following terrorist attacks, Cornell research shows

Hotel room occupancy is up for the first time since the big drop following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The Center for Hospitality Research at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration found that national hotel room occupancy is now rising.

Mike Tanner '80, former Cornell quarterback, is among Sept. 11 victims

Michael A. "Mike" Tanner, the quarterback who helped lead the Cornell Big Red football team to a winning record in 1979 and who led his high school football team to a New Jersey state parochial school championship, is among the victims of the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center.