The Alumni Association of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University will honor six alumni and two faculty members at the association's annual alumni awards banquet Friday, Oct. 2. The event will be held at Cornell's Statler Hotel.
John S. Reed, chairman and chief executive officer of Citicorp and Citibank, N.A., will deliver the Hatfield Address on "Global Financial Services in the New Millennium" Thursday, Oct. 1, at 4:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall on the Cornell campus.
Cornell's Department of Food Science has selected four commercial dairies as producing the highest quality milk in New York state. Crowley Foods of Albany was named the state's top fluid milk processor, with an overall score of 84.
The papers of well-known lesbian author Valerie Taylor, who died in 1997, have been donated to Cornell University Library's Human Sexuality Collection and are being opened to the public Sept. 22. Born Sept. 7, 1913, in Aurora, Ill., Velma Tate published her first lesbian novel, 'Whisper Their Love', in 1957.
'Well-Sweep Herb Farm: Tour of Rare and Unusual Herbs' is the topic Cyrus Hyde, co-owner of the Port Murray, N.J., farm, will address in the 10th annual Audrey Harkness O'Connor Lecture on Wednesday, Sept. 23, at Cornell University.
Several members of the Cornell community are playing key roles in the 1998 United Way of Tompkins County campaign on and off campus. Their efforts, which started last spring, are aimed at raising $1.6 million this fall.
Jupiter's intricate, swirling ring system is formed by dust kicked up as interplanetary meteoroids smash into the giant planet's four, small inner moons, according to scientists studying data from NASA's Galileo spacecraft. Images sent by Galileo also reveal that the outermost ring is actually two rings, one embedded within the other.
T. Colin Campbell, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Nutritional Biochemistry, has received the American Institute for Cancer Research's 1998 Award for Excellence in Cancer Research.
Nathan Fawcett, who has served as Cornell director of statutory college affairs for the past 10 years, has been promoted to associate vice provost for statutory college affairs.
Alfred E. Kahn, who served as chairman of the Civil Aeronautics Board under President Jimmy Carter and is considered the father of airline deregulation, will discuss that topic.
Patsy M. Brannon, Cornell Ph.D. '79 and chair and professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Science at the University of Maryland, has been nominated as dean of the College of Human Ecology.
Jack H. Freed, professor of chemistry, has been named the 1998 recipient of the Zavoisky Award, a prestigious recognition by an international panel of scientists.
