A musician whose career blossomed in Ithaca and who is a favorite of area audiences will be the featured performer for this year's Lauren Pickard '90 Emerging Artist Series at Cornell University. David Linhart, a Cornell alumnus (B.S. '99 in agricultural and biological engineering) and the guitarist and lead vocalist with the well-known roots reggae band the Uplifters, will bring his acoustic-guitar driven music to Willard Straight Hall's Memorial Room on Monday, April 15, at 7:30 p.m. The show is free and open to the public. (April 5, 2002)
ITHACA, N.Y. --The fourth annual Powwow and Smoke Dance Competition will be held on Saturday, April 13, in Barton Hall at Cornell University. The "grand entry" begins at noon and the powwow, hosted by the Native American Students at Cornell organization, will continue until 8 p.m. This event is free and open to the public. "The Native American students at Cornell extend a warm welcome, to native and non-native people alike, to come and be a part of this exciting family event," said Jason Corwin, a graduating senior in communications and co-chair of the Native American Students at Cornell group. "The smoke dance competition is always a highlight. T his event is an annual crowd-pleaser and is an excellent opportunity to learn more about Native American culture," he said. (April 5, 2002)
ITHACA, N.Y. --- This month, Cornell University Andrew Dickson White Professors-at-Large Roger Short, Haris Silajdzic and Jane Goodall will deliver public lectures on subjects ranging from human sexuality to international peacekeeping to saving the planet. Short is an eminent reproductive biologist making his first visit to Cornell as a professor-at-large; Silajdzic, a former prime minister of Bosnia, is making his final professor-at-large visit, as is Goodall, who is one of world's most widely recognized and distinguished primatologists. (April 5, 2002)
Michael Shuler, the Samuel B. Eckert Professor of Chemical Engineering at Cornell, has been named to lead a newly established program to integrate the life sciences into engineering education, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels.
Sangtae Kim, vice president of Lilly Research Laboratories(LRL), a division of Eli Lilly & Co., will visit Cornell University Monday, April 15, through Wednesday, April 17, to deliver the 15th annual Julian C. Smith Lectures.
Henrik N. Dullea, vice president for university relations at Cornell University, today (April 3, 2002) issued a statement concerning the university's review of events involving the arrest of a student by Cornell Police at Lambda Upsilon Lambda fraternity, at 3:30 a.m. on January 27, 2002. (April 3, 2002)
Cornell will continue its membership in both the Worker Rights Consortium and the Fair Labor Association, two organizations aimed at ending sweatshop conditions in the apparel industry.
A campus organization at Cornell University that promotes and celebrates the multi-racial experience at the university and in the Ithaca community will be the recipient of the 2002 James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony. The group BLEND (Bi-/Multiracial Lineages, Ethnicities, and Nationalities Discussion) and its founder and president, Cornell senior Tamika Lewis, will be presented with the eighth-annual Perkins Prize, including an award of $5,000, by Cornell President Hunter Rawlings during a ceremony Tuesday, April 9, at 4:15 p.m. in the Memorial Room of Willard Straight Hall on campus. (April 3, 2002)
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)
John Bogle, founder of the pioneering Vanguard Group, now one of the two largest mutual fund organizations in the world, will speak on his holistic "servant leadership" style at Cornell University Wednesday, April 10. His talk, at 4:30 p.m. in Barnes Hall auditorium, is free and open to the public. Bogle, who was named one of the top four investment giants of the 20th century by Fortune magazine in 1999, will discuss the holistic approach to organizational effectiveness that he favors. It involves the concepts of serving others, sharing decision-making and promoting a sense of community within an organization. Initially developed by an AT&T senior executive in the 1970s, it has been championed recently by management gurus Ken Blanchard and Warren Bennis. Bogle's talk is part of the Park Leadership Speakers series sponsored by Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management. (April 3, 2002)