To prepare tax professionals, accountants, farm business advisers and attorneys on the tax-law changes affecting small businesses and farms, Cornell's Department of Agricultural, Resource and Managerial Economics and Cornell Cooperative Extension will sponsor a Small Business and Farm Tax School, and an In-Depth Tax School.
The School of Hotel Administration at Cornell will offer a series of five lectures this spring as part of the course Housing and Feeding the Homeless. All lectures, which are free and open to the public, begin at 2:55 p.m. in 265 Statler Hall.
A public information session and meeting will be conducted Tuesday, March 10, at the DeWitt Middle School on Warren Road to brief members of the community on the status of Cornell's former radiation disposal site in Lansing.
The Cornell Dance Program's second All-Years Dance Reunion, Aug. 29-31, kicked off the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts' 20th season. (Sept. 3, 2008)
A major collection of previously undocumented papers from U.S. presidents and other political leaders of the 18th and 19th centuries has been donated to Cornell Library by a current student. The collection includes a number of letters written by John and Abigail Adams, the nation's second presidential couple.
Jared Genser '95 founded Freedom Now to release prisoners of conscience around the world and has won the freedom of five prisoners from China, Vietnam, Burma, Pakistan and Egypt. (Dec. 8, 2009)
In the wake of the nanoguitar, now there are 287,900 nanosaxophones. The tiny instrument images, carved on a silicon chip by engineers at the Cornell Nanofabrication Facility, together form a centimeter-square silhouette of President Bill Clinton playing his favorite musical instrument.
The University Diversity Council's Breaking Bread initiative brought together student pro-choice and pro-life groups for dinner and a discussion on abortion to help the groups find common ground. (April 27, 2009)
Stunning microscopy images of gold nanoparticles and calcium carbonate crystals, among others, win the Cornell Center for Materials Research imaging contest. (March 9, 2007)
More than 100 Cornell students from across campus discussed opportunities for careers in the U.S. labor and social justice movements with 18 labor professionals Sept. 16, as part of the Third Annual Labor Roundtable.