Cornell economist Steven Kyle predicts that 2010 will bring flat growth, high unemployment rates unlikely to budge, and continued turmoil in the housing market. (Dec. 9, 2009)
The leader of the Los Angeles County Home-Care Workers Union, the second largest local in the nation, and a labor reporter for the Chicago Tribune who was a Pulitzer prize nominee are part of Union Days 2002 at Cornell University. This year's theme, "Unions, Democracy and Civil Society," looks at the role of the labor movement in achieving political and economic justice. Union Days, which aims to make students aware of the issues at the forefront of labor organizing, takes place at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR), Ives Hall, April 10-12. Events are free and open to the public. (April 3, 2002)
Maurie Semel, Cornell University professor emeritus of entomology, whose research work bolstered the Long Island, N.Y. potato and vegetable industries, died Feb. 10, 2005, in Bucyrus, Ohio. He was 82.
From the first page of Helena Maria Viramontes' book 'Their Dogs Came With Them,' the reader is bombarded with a kaleidoscope of sensory images that create a world like a tile mosaic, one small, vibrant piece at a time. (April 11, 2007)
The Cornell Environmental Film Festival celebrates its fifth anniversary with more than 20 films exploring humanity's role in the natural world. The festival will run from Oct. 12 to Oct. 18.
Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus will speak on "The Origins of Cancer" during the sixth annual Ef Racker Lectureship in Biology and Medicine, Nov. 13 at 8 p.m. in Alice Statler Auditorium, Statler Hall, at Cornell University. The lecture is free and the public is invited. Varmus has been director of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., since November of 1993.
Actress and public speaker Yolanda King will return to campus to deliver the Cornell University Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture titled "Open My Eyes, Open My Soul: Discovering the Power of Diversity," on Feb. 15, at 5 p.m. in Sage Chapel.
John Prendergast, former adviser to President Bill Clinton, called for taking a three 'P' approach to the crisis in Darfur: peacemaking, protection and punishment, during a lecture on campus March 28. (April 2, 2007)
The College of Architecture, Art and Planning will host a two-day symposium, Sept. 17 - 19, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the publication of Ebenezer Howard's influential book, 'Tomorrow: A Peaceful Path to Real Reform.'
A world-famous novel written two centuries ago by an 18-year-old Englishwoman will be required reading for all Cornell University incoming freshman and undergraduate transfer students in fall 2002. The newest selection for the New Student Reading Project seems the perfect choice. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein not only gave the world it's first characterization of the "mad scientist," inspiring scores of movies and books, points out Cornell Vice Provost Isaac Kramnick, but it raised concerns about the role of science in the modern world that seem more relevant than ever today. (March 13, 2002)