Bill Nye "The Science Guy" will visit Cornell March 9-15 as a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor.
During his stay Nye will give a free public lecture, "Those are the Breaks, From Engineering to Entertainment," Wednesday, March 13, at 7:30 p.m. in Statler Auditorium. The noted TV science educator will show pictures from his early days in comedy and video. Free tickets will be distributed starting today, March 7, (limit 2 per person) at Noyes Center Service Desk, Robert Purcell Service Desk, Willard Straight Hall Ticket Office and at Ithaca's Sciencenter.
Nye, who will be a Rhodes Class of '56 Professor until 2004, is a 1977 graduate of Cornell's Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He is best known for his weekly, half-hour, Emmy Award-winning show "Bill Nye, The Science Guy," which aired on PBS from 1992 to 1998 and is being rerun on the Disney Channel.
Recently he has been working on a new book, Bill Nye the Science Guy's Dinosaur Dig, and serving as a consultant with the environmental vehicle division of General Motors.
Nye also will give a talk, "Science Education through the Eyes of Bill Nye," March 11, organized by the Cornell Center for Materials Research, to an invited audience of K-12 educators. He also will be giving presentations in several undergraduate classes at Cornell, including astronomy, mechanical and aerospace engineering, and design and environmental analysis. He will meet with the developmental planning team of the National Science Digital Library and with engineering students in the peer educators group of the Student Success Center. Nye also will meet with students working on various robot and other mechanical design projects and meet with Whistling Shrimp, the student improvisation troupe.
Rhodes Class of '56 Professorships are awarded for a period of one to five years, and appointees are considered full members of the Cornell faculty.
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