Getting the picture

Donald Smith, left, dean of Cornell's College of Veterinary Medicine, shows New York State Assemblywoman Barbara Lifton (D-125th Dist.) a painting of Isidor and Sylvia Sprecker, who endowed the Sprecher Institute for Comparative Cancer Research at the Vet School. Lifton was speaking at a regional cancer and environment forum sponsored by the Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors (BCERF) and the Sprecher Institute, at the Vet School, June 4. Dr. Rodney Page, center, director of the Sprecher Institute, and Dr. Rodney Dietert, right, director of BCERF, look on. Nicola Kountoupes/University Photography