Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, will deliver a talk, "Harvesting Change: Farm Workers' Rights 40 Years After the Founding of the UFW," Tuesday, April 29, at 7 p.m. in Anabel Taylor Hall auditorium. The event, hosted by the Farm Worker Advocacy Coalition at Cornell, is free and open to the public. Huerta is the most prominent Chicana (Mexican-American woman) labor leader in the United States. She is co-founder and first vice president of the United Farm Workers union. For more than 30 years she has dedicated her life to the struggle for equal rights for migrant farm workers. Honored with countless community service, labor, Hispanic and women's awards, Huerta has been called a role model for Mexican-American women. (April 24, 2003)
Cornell Library is the recipient of a $750,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a three-year project to create an online repository for mathematics and statistics publications.
On the evening of Feb. 21, internationally renowned musician Yair Dalal will return to Ithaca for a performance of his unique style of Middle Eastern music.
On April 7, David Macaulay will come to the Cornell to deliver the spring 1999 Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Lecture at 7:30 p.m. in the Alice Statler Auditorium.
With the harvest coming in and Thanksgiving ahead, many are thinking about festivities and food-laden holidays. For those less fortunate, more than 100,000 pounds, or 50 tons, of fruits and vegetables are being donated by Cornell University to local food banks and food distribution centers. (November 11, 2004)
The 2002 Robinson-Appel Humanitarian Award was presented during a dinner and awards ceremony on campus, April 12, to three Cornell students for their community service work. The award was established by Cornell alumni Gerald '54 and Margot '55 Robinson and Robert '53 and Helen '55 Appel to recognize and honor students who have had significant involvement in community service.
The larvae of Manduca sexta, a moth nicknamed the tobacco hornworn, can become so chemically dependent on one of their favorite food – the leaves of eggplant, potato or tomato plants – that they would rather starve to death than eat leaves from other plants.
After more than six years of mandatory food labeling, consumers are becoming savvier about high-fat foods on grocery shelves, says a Cornell economist. In a study, he found that sales of high-fat dressings significantly declined after mandatory labeling was instituted, providing evidence that the labels are influencing the sales of other high-fat foods as well.
Two members of Cornell's faculty on Feb. 10 were among 60 scientists honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).