Briefs

Leading advocate for open access to speak March 17: Peter Suber, a leading advocate for open access publishing will speak on "What can universities do to promote open access?" Thursday, March 17, at 10 a.m. in the Biotechology Building, room G10. This event, which is sponsored by Cornell Library, is free and open to the public. Suber is a senior researcher at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), where he authors the SPARC Open Access Newsletter and edits the Open Access News Web log http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/fosblog.html. He also is the open access project director at Public Knowledge, a public-interest advocacy group in Washington, D.C., and a research professor of philosophy at Earlham College in Indiana. Lingua Franca magazine named him one of "Academia's 20 Most Wired Faculty" in 1999. He has been active in promoting open access for many years through his research, speaking and writing. The open access (OA) initiative seeks to publish peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature on the Internet, making it available free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. In most fields, scholarly journals do not pay authors, who can therefore consent to OA without losing revenue. For more information contact Linda Miller, 255-7401, lm15@cornell.edu.

Caplan fellowships awarded: Cornell juniors Brita Lorentzen (archaeology) and Nicole Schwartzberg (Near Eastern studies) have been awarded the Harry Caplan Travel Fellowships for 2005. Lorentzen will study Phoenician trade and religion and do archaeological fieldwork at Malta as well as travel to Sardinia and Tunisia. Schwartzberg will research the causes of the success of Turkish independence in contrast with other Arab nations, whose independence efforts did not flourish. The Caplan fellowships, named for one the college's most beloved teachers and scholars of classics, support academic projects or research that require travel to Europe and the Near East. The fellowships are awarded to juniors who have serious and developed interests in some aspect of the subjects Caplan loved:ancient Greek and Latin cultures, medieval Latin literature and drama and ancient Jewish culture and rhetoric. The fellowships are handled through the Department of Classics.

Nominations open for Cook Awards: The Advisory Committee on the Status of Women (ACSW) is seeking nominations for the 12th Annual Cook Awards. The Constance E. Cook and Alice H. Cook Recognition Awards honor individuals who deserve recognition for their commitment to women's issues and contributions to improving the climate for women at Cornell. The awards are named in honor of Constance E. Cook, Cornell's first woman vice president, and the late Professor Emerita Alice H. Cook, founding member of ACSW. Nominations may include any deserving member of the Cornell community, staff, faculty or students. The awards committee will review all nominations and decide on the final awardees. Those chosen for the honor will be recognized at the Cook Awards reception at the end of April. Submit nomination material for the awards to Patty Stark at pas4@cornell.edu. Nominators should include a letter describing what contributions the individual has made to the Cornell community on women's issues and enhancing the climate for women on campus. Additional items to include are whether the individual is a student, staff or faculty member; job title or major area of studies; length of time at Cornell; e-mail address and local or campus address. An e-mail submission is preferred. If necessary, mail or fax nominations to Patty Stark, Office of the Vice Provost for Diversity and Faculty Development, 449 Day Hall; fax: 255-0134. The deadline for nominations is April 1. For information, visit http://web.cornell.edu/acsw/.

CUSLAR book sale: A huge book sale to raise funds for the Committee on U.S.-Latin American Relations (CUSLAR) will be held Monday, March 14, from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Tuesday, March 15, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room. Browse through thousands of books, new and used, on all topics. They are priced to sell at $1 and up. Proceeds will benefit CUSLAR's projects, including Bikes for Chiapas, CNY-Cajibio Sister Partnership and Spanish Action Camp.

Tibet project photographic tour: Students for a Free Tibet will present the "Tibet Memorial Project:A photographic tour" to commemorate the 46th Tibetan National Uprising today, Thursday, March 10, from noon to 3 p.m. in the Willard Straight Hall International Lounge.