Cornell University will host the "2000 Greenhouse Management Conference: Grow Your Greenhouse" conference Nov. 9 and 10 at the Holiday Inn, Batavia, N.Y. The conference is being held in conjunction with the Country Folks Grower Trade Show and Garden Plant Education Day. The conference is for anyone interested in starting or expanding a greenhouse business or for those involved in the horticultural industry, either as managers or as service providers, and for horticultural educators.
The Cornell University Class of '56 has inaugurated a newly endowed professorship honoring Cornell President Emeritus Frank H.T. Rhodes that is aimed to enrich the undergraduate experience at the university.
Mary George Opperman, vice president for human resources at Cornell, will offer advice in a talk Oct. 4 at the Women's Community Building titled "Finding Work at Cornell."
Nobel laureate and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Toni Morrison returns to Cornell University to present a free public lecture Tuesday, Oct. 3, at 7:30 p.m. in the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall.
The National Science Foundation today announced continuing funding of $19.9 million over five years to the Cornell Center for Materials Research. The grant will support the work of five interdisciplinary research groups, four seed projects, seven major shared experimental facilities and three outreach programs in the center.
John W. Fitzpatrick, the Louis Agassiz Fuertes Director of the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, has been elected president of the American Ornithologists' Union (AOU).
The Latino Studies Program at Cornell University begins its Fall Colloquium Speaker Series with a free public lecture by Laura Pérez, professor of ethnic studies at the University of California Berkeley, Thursday, Sept. 28, at 4 p.m. in Room B30 of Goldwin Smith Hall.
Gov. George Pataki visited Cornell on Sept. 23during its Homecoming weekend and, with students, faculty and officials looking on, heard from President Hunter Rawlings how important a $13.1 million rehabilitation of Bailey Hall, a statutory college facility constructed in 1912, will be for the campus and Ithaca communities.
Cornell University officials on Sept. 22 responded to a request by Howard King, a Los Angeles lawyer representing the rock band Metallica and rap artist Dr. Dre, that the university block students' access to the Napster file-sharing service. The text of Cornell's response, sent to King in a letter signed by Patricia A. McClary, associate university counsel, follows.