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The Cornell International Folk Dancers meet Sundays in the North Room of Willard Straight Hall. Teaching begins at 7:30 p.m., followed by open dancing from 8:30 to 10 p.m. Open to the public; no partner needed. For more information, contact Marguerite at 539-7335 or David at 564-3613, e-mail dhr1@cornell.edu.
Thursdays, 8 to 10 p.m., Edwards Room, Anabel Taylor Hall.emeritus/retired
* "A History of the Cornell Campus," K.C. Parsons, Oct. 7, 2 p.m., Boyce Thompson Auditorium.
* "Visions of Liberty Hyde Bailey," Gould Colman, Oct. 21, 10 a.m., BTI Auditorium.
* "An Avalanche of the Most Splendid Books: A.D. White and the Founding of Cornell University Library," Mark Dimunation, Nov. 4, 10 a.m., BTI Auditorium.exhibits
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.
* "At the Threshold of the Visible: Minuscule and Small-Scale Art, 1964-1996," through Oct. 26.
* "American Photographs: The First Century," through Nov. 2.
* "Art for Lunch": On Sept. 25 at noon, Judith Moore, research collaborator with the National Museum of American Art, will conduct a gallery tour of "American Photographs: The First Century."
* Sunday Artbreaks: On Sept. 28 at 2 p.m., Tobe Barban Rothaus, senior docent, will present "The Interplay of Photography and Art."
"The Wardrobe of Gertrude Stein Remey, 1931-1933" is on view in the new display area on the third floor of Martha Van Rensselaer Hall through Oct. 24. There also are satellite exhibits in the Career Center display case, 159 MVR Hall, and the Costume Collection Office display case, G19A MVR. The public can view the exhibits between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Rome Program Exhibition: Architecture and art projects produced in Rome 1996-97, through Oct. 4.
"I Take This Pen in Hand: Letters Home From Everyday People" is on display at the Carl A. Kroch Library through Sept. 30. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday; Saturdays, 1 to 5 p.m.
"Vanity Fair Caricatures of Famous Scientists," donated by Professor Emeritus Simon H. Bauer of the Chemistry Department, are on display through Oct. 10 in the display cases outside the library on the second floor of Clark Hall.
"The Thin Veneer: The Peoples of Bosnia and Their Disappearing Cultural Heritage," photographs by Joel Halpern of the University of Massachusetts, and screenings of the video "Going With the Flow: An Anthropologist Among Bosnians" by Barbara Kerewsky-Halpern, through Oct. 3.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 for Sunday matinees, $3.50, and CTA Tuesday events, $2. films
"Whity" (1970), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, with Günther Kaufmann and Hanna Schygulla, 5 p.m., free.
"Floating Life" (1996), directed by Clara Law, with Annette Shun Wah and Annie Yip, 7:15 p.m.
"Addicted to Love" (1997), directed by Griffin Dunne, with Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick, 9:30 p.m.
"Boys Life 2" (1997), featuring the films "Must Be the Music," "Trevor," "Nunzio's Second Cousin" and "Alkali, Iowa," 7:30 p.m.
"Broken English" (1996), directed by Gregor Nicholas, with Aleksandra Vujcic, Rade Serbedzija and Julian Arahanga, 7:30 p.m., Uris.
"Kissed" (1996), directed by Lynne Stopkewich, with Molly Parker and Peter Outerbridge, 9:30 p.m.
"Hercules" (1997), directed by John Musker and Ron Clements, voices by Tate Donovan, Susan Egan and James Woods, 9:45 p.m. and midnight, Uris.
"The Decalogue Seven and Eight" (1989/88), directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski, 7:15 p.m.
"Hercules," 7:20 p.m. and midnight, Uris.
"Addicted to Love," 9:40 p.m., Uris.
"Platoon" (1987), directed by Oliver Stone, with Willem DaFoe, Tom Berenger and Charlie Sheen, 9:45 p.m.
"Hercules," 4:30 and 9:30 p.m.
"Kissed," 7:30 p.m.
"Rouch in Reverse" (1995), directed by Manthia Diawara, presented by Pentangle, 7:30 p.m., Uris, free.
"Veronika Voss" (1982), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, with Rosel Zech and Hilmar Thate, 7 p.m.
"Broken English," 9:20 p.m.
"The Decalogue Nine and Ten" (1989/88), directed by Krzysztof Kieslowski, 7:15 p.m.
Program 4 of Young and Restless Series, 7:30 p.m., CTA Film Forum.
"Kissed," 9:45 p.m.
"City Symphonies," three films shot in the 1920s in the genre of the city symphony focusing on Manhattan, Berlin and life in Russia, introduced by Professor Werner Goehner, 7 p.m.
"Con Air" (1997), directed by Simon West, with Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and John Malkovich, 10 p.m.
"Fetishes" (1996), directed by Nick Broomfield, with Mistress Natasha and Mistress Raven, 7:15 p.m.
"Love! Valour! Compassion!" (1997), directed by Joe Mantello, with Jason Alexander, Randy Becker and John Glover, 9:20 p.m.* Fellowships: Hertz Graduate Fellowship: Applications are in the Graduate Fellowships Office, Caldwell Hall; available to U.S. citizens (or applying for citizenship) in the applied physical sciences. Award is $20,000 stipend plus $12,000 tuition, renewable; Cornell provides remainder of tuition. Deadline is Oct. 24. graduate bulletin
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowships and NSF Minority Graduate Fellowships: Limited number of paper applications available in the Graduate Fellowships office. Application can be made via the Internet; consult http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov. Forms can be mailed by requesting through e-mail: nsfgrfp@orau.gov. Additional instructions are available in the graduate field offices. Completed applications are due Nov. 6.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Pre-Doctoral Fellowships in the Biological Sciences: Limited number of paper applications available in late September in the Graduate Fellowships office. Applications will be available on the Internet at http://www.hhmi.org/fellowships/. Award is $15,000 stipend plus $15,000 cost of education allowance. Deadline is Nov. 12.
Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowships for Minorities: Limited number of paper applications available in mid- to late-September. Stipend is $14,000 plus $7,500 cost of education allowance; Cornell will make up the difference. Deadline is Nov. 15. Consult Internet at http://fellowships.nas.edu.
Fulbright Hays Fellowship: Applications are available in the World Area Program offices. Check with the World Area Program offices for deadline for completed applications.lectures
"Racial Identity and Caribbean Development," Rex Nettleford, University of the West Indies, Jamaica, Oct. 1, noon, 310 Triphammer Road.
Michael Fisher of the University of Maryland will present the 1997 Baker Lectures on the topic "At Sea in the Land of Liquids: Understanding Criticality in Simple and Charged Fluids." Individual lectures are held at 11:15 a.m. in 119 Baker: "van der Waals, Landau, Kac and Convexity," Sept. 25; "Debye and Hückel 70 Years On: The Buried Treasures," Sept. 30; and "The Sad Street of Simulation," Oct. 2.
"The Perennial Border: Building a Seasonal Tapestry of Color, Form and Texture," Constance Lydon of Lydon Design, Orchard Park, Sept. 25, 7:30 p.m., 404 Plant Science Building.
"Landscape Architect Ellen Shipman: Her Life and 650 Gardens," Daniel Krall, landscape architecture, Oct. 2, 7:30 p.m., 404 Plant Science Building.
"Making Movies Matter," Oliver Stone, filmmaker, Sept. 29, 8 p.m., Bailey Hall. Tickets are $8, $6 for students, and are on sale at the Willard Straight Hall ticket office.
"France, Europe and Transatlantic Relations," François Bujon de l'Estang, the French ambassador to the United States, Sept. 29, 4:35 p.m., Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall. See story.
"America's Leadership in Pharmaceutical Research: How Can We Keep Winning?" Raymond Gilmartin, chairman, president and CEO of Merck & Co. Inc., Sept. 25, 4:30 p.m., Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.
"Problems of Labor in Contemporary Society," Tom Donahue, co-chairman of the Foundation for Prevention and Early Resolution of Conflict, Sept. 29, noon, 105 ILR Conference Center.
"Lesbian and Bisexual Identities: Creating Communities, Creating Selves," Kristen Esterberg, University of Massachusetts, Sept. 27, 4 p.m., Founder's Room, Anabel Taylor Hall.
Rex Nettleford of the University of the West Indies will present the Fall 1997 Messenger Lectures on the theme "Cultural Identity and Development: A Caribbean Perspective." Individual lectures, all at 4:30 p.m. in Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, are as follows: "Cultural Indices as Agencies of Marginalization," Sept. 29; "Cultural Strategies of De-Marginalization," Sept. 30; and "Implications for Development," Oct. 1. See story.
"How to Succeed in the World of Outside Funding," Judith Reppy, Peace Studies Program, Sept. 30, 4 p.m., G-08 Uris Hall.
"Divine Determinism and Human Agency: Contemporary Indonesian Reflections of the Islamic Doctrine of Takdir," Mark Woodward, Arizona State University, Sept. 25, 12:20 p.m., Kahin Center, 640 Stewart Ave.
"The Birth of Western Civilization: Rethinking Diffusion, the Orient and the Origins of Aegean Civilization," Sturt Manning, University of Reading, England, Sept. 29, 4:30 p.m., 122 Rockefeller Hall.
"Microscale Thermophysical Engineering," Chang-Lin Tien, University of California at Berkeley, Sept. 30, 4:30 p.m., 111 Upson Hall.music
The Cornell University Glee Club, under the direction of Scott Tucker, will give its Homecoming Concert Sept. 27 at 8 p.m. in Sage Chapel. The program features classic selections for men's voices, including Franz Biebl's Ave Maria, and a conducting appearance by former director Professor Emeritus Thomas Sokol. Tickets are $6 in advance, $7 at the door, and are available at the Willard Straight Hall ticket office, 255-3430, and the Lincoln Hall ticket office, 255-5144. See story.
Sept. 28: The Kennedys will perform. The show runs Sundays from 8 to 11 p.m., with live sets at 8:30, 9:30 and 10:30, in the Cafe at Anabel Taylor Hall. Admission is free; refreshments are available. Bound for Glory is broadcast on WVBR-FM 93.5 and 105.5.reading
In celebration of Epoch magazine's 50th anniversary, a poetry reading will take place Sept. 25 at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall. Featured readers are A.R. Ammons, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry and winner of the National Book Award; Kenneth McClane, the W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Literature; G.S. Giscombe, a former editor of Epoch during the 1980s; and Phyllis Janowitz, professor of English.
Internationally known novelist Don DeLillo, who rarely makes public appearances, will read from his work Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall.
The following O. Henry Award prize-winners will read Sept. 27 at 7:30 p.m. in Call Alumni Auditorium: Robert Morgan, the Kappa Alpha Professor of English at Cornell; Patricia Elam Ruff, a writer, commentator and lawyer from Washington, D.C.; and Arthur Bradford, a former Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University.
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Yale University Chaplain Frederick Streets will give the sermon Sept. 28 at 11 a.m.
Sundays, 5:30 p.m., Robert Purcell Union.
Fridays, 7:30 p.m., Balch Hall Unit 4 Lounge, speakers, open discussion and refreshments. Sunday morning prayers and breakfast, 7 a.m., at alternating locations. For more information, call 272-5320.
Weekend Masses: Sunday, 10 a.m., noon and 5 p.m., Anabel Taylor Auditorium.
Daily Masses: Monday-Friday, 12:20 p.m., Anabel Taylor Chapel.
Sacrament of Reconciliation: Sunday, 3:30 p.m., Catholic Office, G-22 Anabel Taylor Hall.
Thursdays, 7 p.m., Founders Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. Everyone on campus is welcome. Room G-20 Anabel Taylor Hall is open daily for prayer and study.
Also, Sundays at 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, 10:30 a.m., at the Hector Meeting House on Perry City Road. Child care provided. For rides or directions, call 273-4324.
Conservative and Reform: Friday, 6:30 p.m., Anabel Taylor Hall.
Orthodox: Friday, Young Israel House, call 272-5810 for information; Saturday, 9:15 a.m., Edwards Room, Anabel Taylor Hall.
Call 255-4227 for more information.
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. For geneology resources, call Jeremy at 257-7187.
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.
Friday Juma' prayer, 1:15 p.m., One World Room, Anabel Taylor Hall. Daily Zuhr, Asr, Maghreb and Isha' prayers at 218 Anabel Taylor Hall.
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
"Independence of Judiciary: A Growing Myth in the Rapidly Degenerating Concept of Separation of Power in Kenya," Carol Kimbo, graduate student, Law School, Sept. 25, 12:20 p.m., 153 Uris Hall.
"Rebuilding Higher Education in Liberia," Melvin Mason, Cuttington University College, Liberia, Oct. 2, 12:20 p.m., 153 Uris Hall.
"Yuck! Look at That Sick Rhino. Nutritional Toxicology of Fatty Acids in Captive Black Rhinoceros Diets," Jackie Wright, graduate student, Sept. 30, 12:20 p.m., 348 Morrison Hall.
"Slow Passage Through a Homoclinic Orbit With Subharmonic Resonances," Richard Haberman, Southern Methodist University, Sept. 26, 3 p.m., 456 Rhodes Hall.
"On the Momentum Flux Driving AGB Mass-Loss," Murray Lewis, Arecibo Observatory, Sept. 25, 4:30 p.m., 105 Space Sciences Building.
"EpoDB: A Bioinformatics Approach to Studying Gene Expression," Christian Stoeckert Jr., Joseph Stokes Research Institute, Sept. 26, 4 p.m., large conference room, Biotechnology Building.
"Concepts of Corporate Leadership," Raymond Gilmartin, chairman, president and CEO, Merck & Co. Inc., Sept. 25, 2 p.m., Bache Auditorium, Malott Hall.
"Spatial and Color Image Sampling and Coding in the Retina," Gershon Bucksbaum, University of Pennsylvania, Sept. 25, 3:35 p.m., 165 Olin.
"Orienting Multiple Disciplines to Tissue Engineering," Peter Johnson, Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative, Oct. 2, 3:35 p.m., 165 Olin Hall.
"Crystal Structure of T7 DNA Polymerase Complexed to a Primer-Template, a Nucleoside Triphosphate and Its Processivity Factor Thioredoxin," Sylvie Doublie, Harvard Medical School, Oct. 1, 4:30 p.m., 700 Clark Hall.
"Interfaces and Boundary Lines in Phase Equilibrium," Benjamin Widom, chemistry, Sept. 29, 4:30 p.m., 165 Olin Hall.
"Wizards of OS," Dan Oberst, Princeton University, Sept. 29, 2 p.m., 100 Caldwell Hall.
"Exploring the Phylogenetic Relationships of the Sucker-mouth, Armored Catfishes (Loricariidae) of South America," Jonathan Armbruster, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Oct. 1, 4 p.m., A106 Corson Hall.
"The Role of Smart Pixel Technology in Future Signal Processing, Image Processing and Communication Applications," Barry Shoop, United States Military Academy, Sept. 30, 4:30 p.m., 101 Phillips Hall.
"Biological Control of Cotton Aphid (Aphis gossypii Glover) in Cotton (inter) Cropping Systems in China; a Simulation Study," Wopke van der Werf, Wageningen Agricultural University, Netherlands, Sept. 29, 4 p.m., A106 Corson Hall.
"Perception Mapping," Hildegarde Heymann, University of Missouri, Sept. 30, 4:30 p.m., 204 Stocking Hall.
TBA, Jason Grabosky, graduate student, Oct. 2, 4 p.m., 404 Plant Science Building.
"Multifunctional DNA Repair Proteins (e.g. Ribosomal S3 & PO and AP Endonuclease): Roles in Oxidative DNA Damage Repair, Apoptosis, Redox Control, Cancer and Gene Therapy," Mark Kelley, Indiana University Medical School, Sept. 29, 4 p.m., large seminar room, Biotechnology Building.
"Present and Past CO2 Degassing From the Earth," Derrill Kerrick, Pennsylvania State University, Sept. 30, 4:30 p.m., 1120 Snee Hall.
"Beginning of Village Life in Mesoamerica," John Henderson, anthropology, Sept. 30, 12:15 p.m., 153 Uris Hall.
"Glass-Ceramics as Designed Materials," Linda Pinckney, Corning Inc., Sept. 25, 4:30 p.m., 140 Bard Hall.
"Kaposi's Sarcoma Herpes Virus: Epidemiology and Behavior," Yuan Chang, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Sept. 26, 12:15 p.m., Boyce Thompson Institute Auditorium.
"Viral Variation and Lentivirus Pathogenesis: Lessons From the Farm," Susan Carpenter, Iowa State University, Sept. 29, 12:15 p.m., Boyce Thompson Auditorium.
"Synaptic Plasticity and the Generation of Sensory Expectations in a Cerebellum-like Structure," Curtis Bell, Dow Neurological Sciences Institute, Portland, Ore., Sept. 25, 12:30 p.m., A106 Corson Hall.
"Sexual Conflict and Cooperation, Phylogeny and the Design of Bowerbird Bowers," Gerry Borgia, University of Maryland, Oct. 2, 12:30 p.m., A106 Corson Hall.
"Birding at the Edge of the Arctic," Tim Gallagher, writer, photographer and editor of Living Bird, Sept. 29, 7:30 p.m., Fuertes Room, Lab of Ornithology, 159 Sapsucker Woods Road.
Current events roundtable: An Update on the Balkan Situation, with Chip Gagnon, Ithaca College, Sept. 25, 12:15 p.m., G-08 Uris Hall.
"In Search of the Neuronal Mitochondrial Permeability Transition Pore," Jan Dubinsky, University of Minnesota, Sept. 29, 4 p.m., Lecture Hall III, Veterinary Research Tower.
"Renormalization Group Theory: A Historical View of Its Basis and Formulation in Statistical Physics," Michael Fisher, University of Maryland, Sept. 29, 4:30 p.m., Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.
"Exercise-induced pulmonary hemorrhage racetrack to molecules," Eric Birks, University of Pennsylvania, Sept. 30, 4 p.m., Lecture Hall III, Veterinary Research Tower.
TBA, Carol Peterson, University of Waterloo, Sept. 26, 11:15 a.m., 404 Plant Science Building.
"Genes From Mycoparasitic Fungi as a Novel Source for Improving Plant Resistance to Fungal Pathogens," Matteo Lorito, University of Napoli, Sept. 30, 12:20 p.m., 135 Emerson Hall.
"Pasteuria-Meloidogyne: How Does This Bacterium to Nematode Attachment Occur?" Joseph Esnard, plant pathology, Sept. 30, 3:30 p.m., A133 Barton Laboratory, Geneva.
"Karnal Bunt of Wheat: What We Know, What We Need to Know," Mary Palm, USDA, APHIS, Beltsville, Md., Oct. 1, 12:20 p.m., 404 Plant Science Building.
"Partition and South Asian History: In Search of a Narrative," David Gilmartin, North Carolina State University, Sept. 29, 12:15 p.m., G-08 Uris Hall.
"Scale Analysis and Vertical Mixing Estimates in Lake Geneva, Switzerland," Shaimin Zhang, Cornell, Sept. 25, 4:30 p.m., 366 Hollister Hall.
"A Generalized Environmental-Social-Commercial Cost-Effectiveness Trade-Off Model-Gesccetom," Norman Dudley, University of New England, Australia, Oct. 2, 4:30 p.m., 366 Hollister Hall.symposiums
FLEX workshop, Sept. 30, 1 to 3 p.m., 124 CCC: Open to instructors who would like to learn to use Powerpoint or AOLpress or incorporate tables, forms, frames or imagemaps in their instructional Web pages. Staff are on hand to answer questions. Register online at http://atc.cornell.edu/register.html or call 255-8000 for information. There is no fee, but registration is required.
A symposium discussing Cornell's emerging involvement in the national move to build linkages among higher education, communities and public schools on behalf of America's youth will be held Sept. 27 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. in 101 Kennedy Hall. For information, contact Patricia Foster Haines, 400 Kennedy Hall, 255-4197, ph24@cornell.edu.
"The Science that Drives Policy: Pesticides, Diet and Breast Cancer Risk" will be held Sept. 29-30 at the Triphammer Lodge and Conference Center. New York Times "Personal Health" columnist Jane Brody will speak following the dinner Sept. 29 on "The Real Breast Cancer Risks: Getting the Right Word Out." The symposium is open to the public for a $125 registration fee, including meals. The schedule and registration are available from ICET at 255-8008 and on the Internet at http://www.cfe.cornell.edu/bcerf/ICETsymp.html. See story.