The president of a migrant farmworkers union and a leader of a community organization helping poor and moderate-income families in post-Katrina New Orleans are among the featured speakers at Union Days 2006. The annual event,…
Cornell Law School alumni have contributed a total of $8 million, including $5 million from alumnus Jack G. Clarke, to found a business law institute to be housed within Myron Taylor Hall on campus. (Nov. 2, 2007)
The family of George 'Doc' Abraham '39 has donated photos that document little-known aspects of World War II's Africa Campaign to Cornell's library, as well as footage of Abraham and his wife, The Green Thumb duo, of radio and TV fame. (Nov. 12, 2007)
The force of global economics is changing the agricultural landscape in New York state, the Northeast region and the United States. These changes have created uncertainties for the American agricultural economy, according to a white paper released Sept. 19 by Cornell University agricultural scientists and economists. "We are seeing more and more large farms, and there are billions of dollars in subsidies for large, commercial farms. If there were an economic shake-up in agriculture and if the big farm holdings could not sell their goods, the United States would become protectionist immediately," says Thomas Lyson, Cornell's Liberty Hyde Bailey professor of development sociology and one of the paper's authors. "I think it is very precarious." (September 24, 2003)
A new grant will help upgrade 26 decades-old growth chambers with 21st-century lighting and control technology. The makeovers are expected to save $156,000 annually in electricity costs.
Hired mercenaries and their actions will be the focus of a panel, 'Killers for Hire: An Investigation of Mercenary Armies,' Nov. 13 in the Mancuso Amphitheater (G90) Myron Taylor Hall on campus. (Nov. 9, 2007)