The School of Industrial and Labor Relations will hold a symposium in memory of noted Cornell sociologist William Foote Whyte, Friday, April 6, at 2 p.m. in Room 115 of Ives Hall on campus.
Reza Pahlavi, the elder son of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the late Shah of Iran, will give a talk titled "Human Rights, Democratization and the Secular Movement in Iran" Wednesday, April 4, at 6 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall on campus.
George Gibian, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Russian Literature and Comparative Literature, was still an active member of the Cornell faculty when he died at home in October 1999. In April, former students and colleagues will honor Gibian's memory with a conference.
This year's annual conference of the Cornell Society of Engineers will be held April 5-7, 2000 on the Cornell campus with the theme of "Creating Successful Technology-Based Businesses."
The students, faculty and staff of the Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine are inviting the public to their 35th annual open house on Saturday, April 7.
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.
