Daffodil Days: The American Cancer Society's annual Daffodil Days will be Wednesday, March 28, through Sunday, April 1. The annual fund-raiser involves the sale of daffodil bouquets, with the profits going to support life-saving cancer research, as well as cancer education, prevention, treatment and programs for cancer patients and their families in the local community. Once again spearheading the local effort is Cornell's Alpha Tau Omega fraternity, and volunteers from the fraternity will be selling flowers (for those who haven't ordered them in advance) at the following times and locations:
Railroad fair: The 18th annual Finger Lakes Railfair this weekend, March 24 and 25,will give visitors a chance to run model trains themselves on two layouts, and for the first time this year, it will feature a room full of memorabilia, history, videos and an experienced railroader who can answer visitors' questions about railroads, past and present. This year's railfair will take place Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the State Armory on Hanshaw Road, just south of Route 13, northeast of Ithaca and east of Tompkins County Airport. The show is sponsored by the Cornell Railroad Historical Society, which draws its 100-plus members from 13 states and Japan. Among several Cornellians involved with the railfair will be Tom Trencansky, a veteran railroad photographer, active in the operation of the Adirondack Railroad and an administrative manager in Cornell's Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, who will be in charge of the railroad history and information room.
Summer Session catalog: The 2001 Summer Session catalog is now available. Faculty members will receive one at their campus address. Students can pick one up in B20 Day Hall or at campus information centers. Courses also are available online at www.summer.cornell.edu. Employees wanting to register for summer session courses should complete the Summer Session Application Form for Non-Professorial Employees (available in B20 Day Hall) and return it to B20 Day Hall by mail before the course-enrollment deadline. A reminder: It is not necessary for employees to attend registration on the first day of classes.
Project awarded: The Global Development Network (GDN), a World Bank initiative, has awarded a first place medal and a cash award of $10,000 to the International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-biotechnology Applications (ISAAA) for its facilitated project, "Biotechnology to Benefit Small-Scale Banana Producers in Kenya." A collaborative effort between two public institutions, the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) and the Institute of Tropical and Subtropical Crops of South Africa (ITSC), and two private companies, DuRoi laboratories (SA) and Genetic Technologies Limited (GTL), the project is delivering tissue-cultured banana plantlets to Kenyan farmers, who are doubling and even tripling their banana yields. ISAAA is an international nonprofit organization hosted in the United States by the Department of Plant Breeding at Cornell.
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