AFL-CIO President John Sweeney is the keynote speaker for Union Days 2001, a three-day event hosted by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, April 4, 5 and 6.
The Transportation Advisory Committee of Cornell's University Assembly and Cornell Transportation Services invites the Cornell community to a public hearing.
Universities are undergoing rapid changes in response to dynamic and even contradictory forces that pose special challenges to the humanities and social sciences. In a candid effort to address these complex issues, the Cornell University Institute for German Cultural Studies and the Institute for European Studies, in cooperation with the Cornell administration, have organized a symposium.
Four clothing, textile and art exhibits are coinciding with the centennial celebration for Cornell University's College of Human Ecology this coming weekend, March 30-31. One exhibit, which focuses on fashions of the 20th century and their interactions with art, is paired with a show of contemporary works of art in which clothing and dress are the subject matter; both are in the university's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. The third exhibit, featuring children's clothing, is in the Cornell Costume and Textile Collection Gallery (on the third floor of Martha Van Rensselaer Hall). All three exhibits coincide with the centennial celebration this week but will continue until June 17.
German scientist Erwin Neher, joint winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine, will present a special colloquium at Cornell Friday, March 30.
In celebration of the centennial of the New York State College of Human Ecology at Cornell, the exhibition "From Domesticity to Modernity: What Was Home Economics?" shows the intellectual history of home economics.
Cornell University's New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences has named William E. Fry, professor of plant pathology, as the college's senior associate dean. The appointment will take effect in June. Fry succeeds associate dean Brian Chabot, who will return to teaching.
A new publication from the Cornell University Retirement and Well-Being Study provides an in-depth look at how the older Americans fare through the transition to – and in – retirement.
Michel Camdessus, former managing director and chairman of the executive board of the International Monetary Fund, will be the 2001 Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellow at Cornell University, April 9 and 10.
David Lipsky, an early proponent of distance learning and director of the Institute on Conflict Resolution at Cornell, has been named director of educational planning and review for eCornell. The announcement was made on March 21 by Francis Pandolfi, president and chief executive officer of the university's distance-learning subsidiary.
In April of 1961, when John Hsu gave a solo recital of 18th century French music on viola da gamba at Cornell, he unwittingly, yet artfully, teased a musical genie from its bottle. That historical concert, the first Cornell faculty recital on a period instrument, initiated Hsu's inadvertent career as a viola da gamba virtuoso.
In the vanguard of higher education for the past 100 years, the College of Human Ecology at Cornell will celebrate its centennial with a feast of lectures, panel discussions, exhibits and more at its Centennial Celebration Weekend on the Cornell campus.
