Peter Neufeld, co-author of Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted (Doubleday, 2000) and an outspoken advocate for the rights of the wrongly accused, will speak at Cornell University Law School.
A two-day discussion of business, environment and urban areas will feature Mary Nichols, assistant administrator for air and radiation at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, speaking Friday, April 18, at 10 a.m. in 253 Malott Hall, Cornell.
Last spring, food science major Maddie Parish ’17 and other members of her team in the capstone course Food Science 4000 helped a food producer solve a critical production challenge: Microbial spoilage was occurring soon after packaging of the ready-to-eat sesame product.
More U.S. consumers are demanding that their brand-name sports sneakers, jeans and other apparel are manufactured in countries where workers are afforded basic rights. Concerned manufacturers have adopted social responsibility programs and codes of conduct for their overseas suppliers that can include the right of workers to organize and bargain collectively for better wages and working conditions -- often called "freedom of association" (FOA). But how well are those codes working?
Michele M. Bailey, DVM, director of animal care and veterinary services at the University of Western Ontario, has been named associate vice provost for research animal resources at Cornell and director of Laboratory Animal Services in Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine.
Joel Westheimer, an assistant professor in the School of Education at New York University and winner of the 1997 Millman Promising Scholar Award presented by Cornell University's Department of Education, will give three public presentations, Oct. 8 and 9, on the Cornell campus.
Friends and colleagues of Dean L. Taylor will remember the late professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in a memorial service on Monday, Sept. 22 at 4:30 p.m. in the chapel of Anabel Taylor Hall.
Karlton E. Hester and Roberto Sierra, members of the Cornell music faculty, have been selected as American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Award recipients.