Recent activities on campus ...

Jules Pretty, a world-renowned expert in the field of sustainable development and the director of the Centre for the Environment at the University of Essex in England, lectures on the topic "Genetic Modification and Agriculture: Science, Risks, Ethics and Public Policy," March 7 in Room G-10 of the Biotechnology Building. This is Pretty's first visit as a Cornell A.D. White Professor-at-Large, during which he has given open lectures, participated in seminars and in classes and met with students. He will be on campus through today. Charles Harrington/University Photography

Examining mud cores taken from the bottom of a pond in Hyde Park, N.Y., where a mastodon skeleton was found are, from left, Michael Wizevich, research associate in the Institute for the Study of the Continents; Jim Sherpa, curator at the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI), where the skeleton is displayed; Mystie Thongs, a sophomore in engineering majoring in geology; and Peter Nester, education technology manager at PRI. Thongs, who uses a wheelchair, credits engineering Associate Dean Theresa Jordan "for finding a research project that keeps me out of the gorges." Charles Harrington/University Photography