Professor Emeritus Donald C. W. Graham, a food scientist, died Aug. 24 in Ithaca. His memorial service will be Saturday, Sept. 4, at 11 a.m. at St. John's Episcopal Church, 210 N. Cayuga St., Ithaca. (Sept. 2, 2010)
Alpha Phi Alpha, the nation's first Greek collegiate organization established by black students at Cornell in 1906, will prepare for its centennial with a pilgrimage to Cornell on Saturday, Nov. 19.
The young cheddar cheese at McCadam Cheese Co., Heuvelton, N.Y., has been judged the top cheese in New York state for 2000, beating out cheeses in all categories. The judging took place at Cornell University in mid-August and was on Aug. 28 at the New York State Fair's Dairy Day.
More than 200 people came to the opening reception for Buzz Spector's book art project, Jan. 11 at the College of Architecture, Art and Planning's loft space in Manhattan. (Jan. 17, 2007)
Carolyn S. Shoemaker, the world's most successful living "comet hunter," will speak at Cornell University Sunday, April 21, at 1 p.m. in the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall. The talk is free and is open to the public. The subject of the talk, which is aimed at science educators, will be asteroid and comet collisions within the solar system. The talk is sponsored by NASA's Comet Nucleus Tour (Contour) and the central and southern sections of the Science Teachers Association of New York State. Contour, which is scheduled for launch July 1, is managed by the Applied Physics Laboratory at the Johns Hopkins University, with Cornell's Department of Astronomy leading the science team. (April 11, 2002)
Professor Thomas Gilovich delivered this year’s distinguished faculty invitational lecture on principles of social psychology and wisdom Oct. 22 in Goldwin Smith Hall.
International negotiator and former U.S. Sen. George J. Mitchell will be presented with a $25,000 award at the New York Press Club May 29 at an event tailored to show that there is hope of resolution in even the most bitter disputes.