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The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, on the corner of University and Central avenues, is open Tuesday through Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is free. Telephone: 255-6464.
* "Italian Renaissance Paintings and Prints," through Feb. 27.
* "Women's Works," through Feb. 27.
* "The Beauty of the Book: Medieval Manuscripts From the Kroch Library," through Feb. 27.
* "Light Construction: Photo-Sculptures by Doug Prince," through March 5.
* "Fresh Woods and Pastures New: 17th Century Dutch Landscape Drawings From the Peck Collection," through March 26.
* "The Baroque Landscape," through March 26.
* Family Art-Full Saturday: "Patterns & Rhythms: African Inspired Music, Dance and Art." Join us Feb. 5 from 10 a.m. to noon for a celebration of Black History Month with dancing, surprise guests and a hands-on studio workshop. Free to members/$5 per family nonmembers.
* Art for Lunch: Tour the exhibition "Women's Works" with chief curator Nancy Green, Feb. 10, noon.Films listed are sponsored by Cornell Cinema and held in Willard Straight Theatre, except where noted, and are open to the public. All films are $4.50 ($4 for students, kids 12 and under and seniors), except matinees, $3.50, and CTA Tuesday events, $3. films
"World's Best Commercials of the Century" (1999), directed by various, 7:30 p.m.
"Happy, Texas" (1999), directed by Mark Illsley, with Jeremy Northam, Steve Zahn and William H. Macy, 9:30 p.m.
"Breasts: A Documentary," shown with "Bra," sponsored by Women's Studies, 4 p.m., free.
"Late August, Early September" (1998), directed by Olivier Assayas, with Jeanne Balibar and Mathieu Amalric, 7:15 p.m.
"Trekkies" (1999), directed by Roger Nygard, 7:30 p.m., Uris.
"Three Kings" (1999), directed by David O. Russell, with George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg and Ice Cube, 9:30 p.m., Uris.
"Happy, Texas," 9:40 p.m.
"La Femme Nikita" (1991), directed by Luc Besson, with Anne Parillaud, Jean Anglade and Tcheky Karyo, midnight, Uris.
"Kirikou and the Sorceress" (1998), directed by Michel Ocelot, IthaKid Film Fest, 2 p.m., $2/$1.50 kids 12 and under.
"Happy, Texas," 5 p.m.
"Spectres of the Spectrum" (1999), directed by Craig Baldwin, with Sean Kilcoyne, Caroline Koebel and Beth Lisick, 7:30 p.m.
"Trekkies," 7:30 p.m., Uris.
"Three Kings," 9:30 p.m., Uris.
"World's Best Commercials of the Century," 10 p.m.
"Trekkies," 4:30 p.m.
"Three Kings," 7:15 p.m.
"Henry V" (1944), directed with Laurence Olivier, presented by Pentangle, 7:30 p.m., Uris, free.
"Bonjour Tristesse" (1958), directed by Otto Preminger, with Deborah Kerr, David Niven and Jean Seberg, 7 p.m.
"World's Best Commercials of the Century," 9:15 p.m.
"Late August, Early September," 7:15 p.m.
"La Femme Nikita," 9:30 p.m.
"When Father Was Away on Business" (1985), directed by Emir Kusturica, with Moreno de Bartoll and Miki Manojlovic, 7 p.m.
"Boiling Point" (1990), directed by Takeshi Kitano, with Masahiko Ono, Yuriko Ishida and Takahito Iguchi, 9:45 p.m.
"Destiny" (1998), directed by Youssef Chahine, with Mahmoud Hemeida and Nour el-Cherif, 7 p.m.
"Bringing Out the Dead" (1999), directed by Martin Scorsese, with Nicolas Cage and Patricia Arquette, 9:40 p.m.graduate bulletin
* Spring 2000 registration: To see if you are registered, check Just the Facts on Bear Access. If you have a hold, go to the office as directed on Just the Facts and clear the hold. Then go to the registrar's office in Day Hall to be registered. Final day for spring registration without penalty is Feb. 11, after this there is a $200 late fee plus interest charges.
* Course enrollment continues through Feb. 11. Forms are available in graduate field offices and at Caldwell Hall. Return completed form in person by Friday, Feb. 11, to Caldwell Hall. Students who completed electronic precourse enrollment and have course changes should submit a course add and drop form to the Graduate School. Students no longer taking courses must enroll for thesis or dissertation research, either a department course or the Graduate School research numbers: Doctoral Dissertation 724-300; Master's Thesis 724-354.
* New students: At the time of course enrollment or before new students must provide the name of the special committee chair or of a temporary adviser on the Special Committee Selection and Change form.
* Incomplete: Grades of "incomplete" or "no grade reported" (NGR) for graduate students cannot be removed after one year from date of the end of the course in which the incomplete or NGR was given. See Guide to Graduate Study, 1998-2000, pp. 19-20.
* Fellowship checks: Students with fellowships administered through the Graduate School can get checks at 155 Caldwell Hall between 8 a.m. and 4:15 p.m. Students must be registered for spring 2000; bring Cornell ID.
* Income tax for 1999: Tax information is in the January issue of the "Cornell Graduate Newsletter," available in graduate field offices and Caldwell Hall. For information on your W-2, see the Cornell payroll home page: http://www.univco.cornell.edu/pyroll/. For information on tax issues in general, see the Cornell's Tax Department home page: http://www.univco.cornel.edu/accounting/tax/.
CAUTION: International Students: Do not file your U.S. income tax return until March 18. You may receive a 1042-S form, which will be mailed to you approximately March 15. See the ISSO web site for tax information and times for the tax seminars for international students: http://www.isso.cornell.edu/. * Travel grants: Conference transportation grant applications are due at the Graduate Fellowship Office, Caldwell Hall, by March 1 for April conferences. Late applications not considered; grants to registered graduate students invited to present papers or posters. Forms at Graduate Field Offices and the web http://www.gradschool.cornell. edu/grad/fellowships/intro.html.
* Active file fee deadline: Ph.D. candidates for a May degree who are not registered for spring 2000 and wish to avoid the $200 active file fee for spring 2000 must complete all degree requirements by Feb. 11.
* Commencement is Sunday, May 28. To receive a May degree, the deadline for completing all requirements is May 19. Deadlines are earlier to have a diploma available for pickup following the commencement exercises (March 17) or to have one's name appear in the commencement program (March 24). A ceremony to recognize Ph.D. candidates will be in Barton Hall, Saturday, May 27, 5 p.m.; family, friends and faculty are invited. A reception follows the ceremony. Information will be in commencement packets available in March at the Graduate School.
* Degree requirement: To receive a graduate degree, students must have their final undergraduate transcript on file with the Graduate School showing the conferral date of their undergraduate degree. If your graduate application for admission was made before the conferral of your undergraduate degree and you have not had a later transcript sent, contact your undergraduate institution to have a final transcript sent to the Graduate Records Office, Caldwell Hall.
* Dissertation/thesis seminars will be held in 100 Caldwell Hall on Wednesdays, 2 p.m.: master's on Feb. 16; doctoral on Feb. 23. The thesis adviser will discuss preparing and filing theses and dissertations; students, faculty and typists are encouraged to attend.lectures
Thomas Lectures: Peter Eisenman is giving the lecture series on "The Critical, the Post Critical, the Ecstatic: Current Forms of Radicality." All lectures are at 6:30 p.m. in the Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall. This week's topics are: "The Critical in Architecture, Pre 1968: Interiority and the Origins of Discourse," Feb. 7, and "The Critical in Architecture, Post 1968: Autonomy and Negativity," Feb. 8. See story
"Information Networks: Some Models and Algorithms," Jon Kleinberg, Cornell, Feb. 3, 4:15 p.m., 101 Phillips Hall.
John Lewis, congressman from Georgia and a leader in the Civil Rights Movement, will speak at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. celebration, Feb. 3, 4:30 p.m., Sage Chapel.
"Illusory Corporatism in Eastern Europe: Tripartism in the Service of Neoliberalism," David Ost, Hobert & William Smith College, Feb. 7, 12:15 p.m., 153 Uris Hall.
Jane Brody, author and New York Times Personal Health columnist, will speak Feb. 9 at 8 p.m. in the Statler Auditorium. Tickets are required and are available, free of charge, at the Willard Straight Hall ticket office. See story.
"Why Listen to the Other Animals?" Katharine Payne, Laboratory of Ornithology, Feb. 7, 2:55 p.m., Uris Hall.
"Travails of the Lord: The Law, Religion and State in Colonial and Independent India," Ishita Banerjee Dube, Colegio de Mexico, Feb. 7, 12:15 p.m., G08 Uris Hall.
"The Politics of State-Society Relations in the SPDC's Burma," Yin Hiaing Kyaw, Ph.D. candidate, government, Feb. 3, 12:20 p.m., Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave.
"Institutional Sangha Crisis: Wat Dhammakaya and Reform," Santikaro Bhikkhu, abbot, Dawn Kiam Forest Monastery, Thailand, Feb. 8, 4:30 p.m., Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave.
"The Place of Power: Syncretic Practices at Mount Banahaw, Philippines," Smita Lahiri, Ph.D. candidate, anthropology, Feb. 10, 12:20 p.m., Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave.music
* Feb. 6, 8 p.m., Barnes Hall: The Cornell Contemporary Chamber Players closes its 1999-2000 season with music composed by two Cornell doctoral students, Yotam Haber and Robert Paterson. See story.
* Feb. 8, 8 p.m., Barnes Hall: Linda Case presents a faculty recital with works by Stravinsky, Paganini, Bartók, Guastavino, Ibert and Brahms. She will be accompanied by pianist Xak Bjerken and guitarist Pablo Cohen.
* Feb. 10, 8 p.m., Barnes Hall: Joint student recital featuring Rebecca Marques, soprano, and Calvin Wareen, tenor, with Blaise Bryski, piano.
Singer/songwriter Pamela Means, who has opened for Joan Baez, Patty Larkin, Shawn Colvin, Neil Young and many others, will perform Feb. 3 at 8 p.m. in the Memorial Room of Willard Straight Hall. This free concert kicks off the Thursday Night Coffeehouse Series sponsored by the Willard Straight Hall Program Board.
Singer/songwriter Meg Hutchinson, who was named best new artist of 1996 by Peter Hanson of The Source Magazine, will perform Feb. 10 from 8 to 10 p.m. in the Memorial Room of Willard Straight Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.
Feb. 6: Small Potatoes will perform Bound for Glory's 1,000th live show. See story. Bound for Glory is broadcast live Sundays from 8 to 11 p.m. in the Anabel Taylor Hall Café. The program airs on WVBR-FM 93.5 and 105.5.religion
Janet Shortall, associate director of Cornell United Religious Work, will lead the service Feb. 6 at 11 a.m.
Sundays, 5:30 p.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel.
Fridays, 7:30 p.m., meet in the lobby of Willard Straight Hall, speakers, open discussion, games and service-oriented activities. Classes, speakers, prayers, celebrations at alternating locations. For more information, call 272-3037 or send e-mail to bahai@cornell.edu.
Weekend Mass schedule: Sunday, 10 a.m., noon and 5 p.m., Anabel Taylor Hall Auditorium.
Daily Masses: Monday-Friday, 12:20 p.m., ATH Chapel.
Sacrament of Reconciliation: Sundays, 4 p.m., G-22 ATH.
Testimony meetings: Tuesday, 7 p.m., G-20 Anabel Taylor Hall. Church services: Sundays, 10:30 a.m., and Wednesdays, 7:30 p.m., First Church of Christ, Scientist, 101 University Ave., Ithaca.
Sundays, worship and Eucharist, 9:30 a.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel.
Meeting for Worship, Sundays, 11 a.m., Edwards Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. Child care provided. For rides or directions, call 273-5421.
* Conservative and Reform: Fridays, 5:30 p.m., candle lighting and singing in the lobby of Anabel Taylor Hall, followed by Shabbat services. Saturdays, 9:45 a.m., Conservative services in the Founder's Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. Call 255-4227 for more information.
* Orthodox: Friday, Young Israel House, call 272-5810 for weekly times; Saturday, 9:15 a.m., Edwards Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. For daily service times, call 272-5810; all daily services are at the Young Israel House.
Sundays, 11 a.m., One World Room (in English), and 1 p.m., chapel (in Korean), Anabel Taylor Hall. Call 255-2250 for more information.
Cornell student branch: Sundays, 9 a.m. Call 272-4520 or 257-6835 for directions and transportation. Basketball on Wednesdays, 8 p.m.
Sunday worship at 10:45 a.m. and 5 p.m., St. Luke Lutheran Church, Oak Ave. at College Ave. For information, call 273-6811.
Daily congregational prayer at 218 Anabel Taylor Hall.
Weekly Friday prayer, 1:15-1:45 p.m., One World Room, ATH.
Weekly Halaqa, Friday, 6:30-7:30 p.m., 218 ATH.
Mondays at 5:15-6 p.m., Founders Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. Brief instruction followed by silent sitting. Diverse backgrounds welcome. Some discussion. For more information, call CURW at 255-4214.
For information about United Pagan Ministries, call Cornell United Religious Work at 255-4214.
Sunday service, 11 a.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel. For more information, call the Protestant Cooperative Ministry at 255-4224.seminars
"Africana Studies and the Cultural Paradigm: A Reappraisal in the New Millennium," Ali Mazrui, Africana studies, Feb. 9, noon, Hoyt Fuller Room, Africana Studies and Research Center, 310 Triphammer Road.
"Brownian Motion and Heat Kernel Derivative Formulas," Bruce Driver, University of California at San Diego, Feb. 4, 3:30 p.m., 655 Rhodes Hall.
"How Many Sigmas? A Bayesian Look at Signal Detection," Thomas Loredo, Cornell, Feb. 3, 4:30 p.m., 105 Space Sciences Building.
"Microquasars: The Multiwavelength View," Stephen Eikenberry, Cornell, Feb. 10, 4:30 p.m., 105 Space Sciences Building.
"Structure, Function and Development," Patrick Stover, nutritional sciences, Feb. 4, 4 p.m., G10 Biotechnology Building.
"Unsteady Aerodynamics of Insect Flight: Computation and Modeling," Jane Wang, theoretical and applied mechanics, Feb. 10, 3:35 p.m., 165 Olin Hall.
"Divergent Signaling Pathways Requiring Discrete Calcium Signals Mediate Concurrent Activation of Two Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases by Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone," Jennifer Mulvaney, biomedical sciences, Feb. 8, 4 p.m., Lecture Hall III, College of Veterinary Medicine.
"Genomic Expression Analysis of Carbon Metabolism in Escherichia coli," Tyrrell Conway, University of Oklahoma, Feb. 9, 4:30 p.m., 700 Clark Hall.
"Colloids in Compressed Carbon Dioxide: Formation, Stabilization and Applicants," Matthew Yates, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Feb. 7, 4 p.m., 165 Olin Hall.
"Dynamics of Cell Adhesion- and Soluble Factor-Mediated Signaling Reaction Pathways and Their Synergistic Regulation of DNA Synthesis," Anand Asthagiri, MIT, Feb. 9, 4 p.m., 165 Olin Hall.
TBA, Richard Koerner, Harvard University, Feb. 3, 4:40 p.m., 119 Baker Lab.
TBA, Brian Crane, California Institute of Technology, Feb. 7, 4:40 p.m., 119 Baker Lab.
TBA, Daesung Lee, Harvard University, Feb. 10, 9 a.m., 335 Baker Lab.
TBA, Ron Elber, Cornell Theory Center, Feb. 10, 4:40 p.m., 119 Baker Lab.
"The Influence of Tillage and Soil Properties on Soil Organic Matter Fractions Dynamics in Soils From New York and Brazil," Alexandre Cardoso, crop and soil sciences, Feb. 8, 3:30 p.m., 135 Emerson Hall.
"Evolutionary Origins of the Temperate/Tropical Diversity Gradient," Irby Lovette, University of Pennsylvania, Feb. 7, 12:30 p.m., A106 Corson Hall.
"Evolution of Brilliant Male Plumage Traits in Manacus: Hybrid Zones, Molecular Systematics and Riverine Barriers," Robb Brumfield, University of Washington, Feb. 9, 4 p.m., A106 Corson Hall.
"The Old Paper Document and the New Digital Document: Relations and Transitions Between the Two Worlds," Patrick Bergmans, Xerox Research Centre, Europe, Feb. 8, 4:30 p.m., 101 Phillips Hall.
"Food Insecurity: An Emerging Focus for Nutrition Intervention," Christine Olson, nutritional sciences, Feb. 8, 4 p.m., 125 Riley-Robb Hall.
"S. cerevisiae Mutants With Defects in Export From the Mitochondrial Matrix," Scott Saracco, Feb. 9, 12:20 p.m., G1 Biotechnology Building.
"The Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase SHP-1 Controls Cytokine Activities of the Innate Antiviral Immune Response," Paul Massa, SUNY Health Science Center, Syracuse, Feb. 4, 12:15 p.m., Boyce Thompson Auditorium.
"Government and Sustainability Politics in Brazil in the 1990s," Eduardo Viola, Universidade de Brasilia, Feb. 8, 12:15 p.m., 153 Uris Hall.
"Nanotube Mechanics," Rodney Ruoff, Washington University, Feb. 3, 4:30 p.m., 140 Bard Hall.
"Novel Liquid Crystal Materials for Electro-optic and IR Imaging Applications," R.N. Shashidhar, Naval Research Laboratory, Feb. 10, 4:30 p.m., 140 Bard Hall.
"How Shrinking Product Lifecycles Impact Manufacturing Strategy: A Report From Hewlett-Packard," John Monroe, Hewlett-Packard Co., Feb. 10, 4:30 p.m., B14 Hollister Hall.
"Ruminal Bacteria and Tannins: Tolerance and Toxicity," Alice Pell, animal science, Feb. 3, 4 p.m., 105 Riley-Robb Hall.
TBA, Steve Winans, microbiology, Feb. 10, 4 p.m., 105 Riley-Robb Hall.
"Structure and Function of CheA: The Histidine Kinase Central to Bacterial Chemotaxis," Alexandrine Bilwes, California Institute of Technology, Feb. 7, 3 p.m., G10 Biotechnology Building.
"An Approach Using X-ray Crystallography and Electron Microscopy," Jianhua Fu, Stanford University School of Medicine, Feb. 10, 4 p.m., G10 Biotechnology Building.
"Crucibles of the Bizarre: Avian Evolution and Extinction on Tropical Islands," Irby Lovette, University of Pennsylvania, Feb. 7, 7:30 p.m., Fuertes Room, Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road.
"Ridges, Rivers and Refugia: on the Frontier of Understanding Tropical Bird Diversity," Robb Brumfield, University of Washington, Feb. 10, 7:30 p.m., Fuertes Room, Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road.
"Electoral Incentives and Economic Conflict: The U.S. and Japan, 1966-1998," Christopher Way, government, Feb. 3, 12:15 p.m., G08 Uris Hall.
"Complexity and Robustness," Jean Carlson, University of California at Santa Barbara, Feb. 7, 4:30 p.m., Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.
TBA, Thomas Hash, ICRISAT, Feb. 8, 12:20 p.m., 135 Emerson Hall.
"Research on Engineering Transgenic Apples," Jay Norelli, plant pathology, Feb. 8, 3:30 p.m., A133 Barton Lab, Geneva.
"Factors Underlying Category-Specific Deficits," Ken McRae, University of Western Ontario, Canada, Feb. 4, 3:30 p.m., 202 Uris Hall.
"Equality by Design," Szonja Szelenyi, sociology, Feb. 4, 2:30 p.m., 32 Warren Hall.
"Biologically Active Biomaterials," C.C. Chu, textiles and apparel, Feb. 3, 12:20 p.m., 317 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.theater
Wendy MacLeod's "The House of Yes" runs Feb. 3-6, and 8-12 at 8 p.m. in the Black Box Theatre of the Center for Theatre Arts. Matinees are offered Feb. 6, 12 and 13 at 2 p.m. For play and ticket information, call or visit the box office at the CTA, 430 College Ave., between 12:30 and 5:30 p.m., weekdays; 254-ARTS.miscellany
Meetings are open to the public and will be held Monday through Friday at 12:15 p.m. in Anabel Taylor Hall. For more information, call 273-1541.
Are you pregnant and planning to breastfeed? If interested in participating in a community-based study examining some of the nutritional aspects of breastfeeding, contact Sunjya Schweig, Division of Nutritional Sciences, at 255-4804 or sks21@cornell.edu.
Cornell Cooperative Extension is offering a class on composting indoors with worms, Feb. 9, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Cooperative Extension building, 615 Willow Ave. For more information or to register for the class, call Cooperative Extension's "Rotline" at 272-2292. The class fee is $5.
The fifth annual Health Fair, co-sponsored by the Clinical Volunteer Program and the Willard Straight Hall Program Board, is Feb. 7 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Memorial Room of Willard Straight Hall. See story for a complete list of events for Health Awareness Week.
The public speaking group, Toastmasters International, meets Tuesdays at 7 p.m. in 306 Rockefeller Hall, and meetings are open to the public. For more information call 277-8863.sports
Feb. 4, at Harvard, 7 p.m.
Feb. 5, at Dartmouth, 7:30 p.m
Feb. 8, Stony Brook, 7:30 p.m.
Feb. 4, Harvard, 7 p.m.
Feb. 5, Dartmouth, 7 p.m.
Feb. 5, at Harvard, 11 a.m., w/Tufts, 12:30 p.m.
Feb. 6, at Brandeis, w/MIT, Boston College, Brown
Feb. 5, at Bowling Green, 7 p.m.
Feb. 4, at Harvard, 7 p.m.
Feb. 5, at Brown, 7 p.m.
Feb. 3, Middlebury, 7 p.m.
Feb. 5, Dartmouth, 2 p.m.
Feb. 6, Boston College, 2 p.m.
Feb. 5, at F&M, 10 a.m.
Feb. 5, Navy at F&M 3 p.m.
Feb. 5, at Brown, noon
Feb. 5, at Brown w/Columbia, 3:30 p.m
Feb. 5, Yale, Bucknell
Feb. 5, Yale, Bucknell
Feb. 5, Columbia, noon
Feb. 5, Syracuse, 2 p.m.