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ITHACA, N.Y. -- Fabrics have always been an integral part of flight, according to a Cornell University video. And now, this connection will be a featured part of a new Smithsonian Institution exhibit in the new gallery, How Things Fly, in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. The video, The Fabric/Flight Connection, will be shown regularly for at least 10 years in a mini-theater of the National Air and Space Museum starting Sept. 20 when the gallery opens. The video focuses on advanced fiber science concepts as viewed through the dynamic world of aeronautics. flight.video.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Top scholars in psychological science present state-of-the-art thinking on personality disorders and developmental psychopathology in two new books edited by Cornell University clinical psychologist and psychopathology researcher Mark F. Lenzenweger: Major Theories of Personality Disorder and Frontiers of Developmental Psychopathology lenzenweger.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University and Cornell Cooperative Extension experts are helping New Yorkers boost their net worth by the year 2000. Considering that some 70 percent of Americans live "paycheck to paycheck" and that consumer borrowing has jumped 52 percent while savings have shrunk 23 percent in the past 25 years, many American consumers are in financial disarray, says Barbara J. Bristow, project director of Money 2000 at Cornel. Money 2000 is a new statewide initiative through Cornell Cooperative Extension county offices to provide financial education, money management skills and financial counseling. money2000.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- A new $3 million institute at Cornell University will look at how families are coping with changes in all stages of life and work. The new Cornell Employment and Family Careers Institute, a Sloan Center on Working Families funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, will establish research, education and outreach programs that address the emerging realities of working families that are the result of fundamental changes that have occurred in recent years in the institutions of family and work. Its research will look at working families and issues, such as their decisions, stresses, beliefs and expectations and their coping strategies for options, parenting, childcare and financial decisions. sloan.institute.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University chemists have created the world's smallest wires and encased them in a plastic polymer, an accomplishment that could lead to a host of new electrical or optical uses at the nanometer scale. An electrical cord only a few atoms thick? That's about the size of it. The wires, only 6 angstroms in diameter, or just several atoms wide, could be kept separate or bunched together to make cables inside a polymer matrix, depending on the intended purpose, the researchers say. The wires can be up to at least 10,000 angstroms in length. Nanowires.lb.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University materials scientists have come up with a novel technique that could vastly improve the performance and yield of silicon microelectronic and optical devices, which are used in semiconductor integrated circuits that power everything from computers to telephones. One of the problems in further miniaturization of devices is that the surface of silicon wafers -- the platform on which computer chips are made -- can be irregular at the atomic level. Crystals of silicon are made up of sheets of atoms stacked in a very regular way. The surfaces of the crystalline wafers ideally would consist of a smooth atomic plane with all the atoms at the same level. On real surfaces, however, the level of the surface varies from one spot to another so that the real surface consists of short, smooth terraces each ending in a step of atomic dimensions -- a distance of about 1.5 nanometers. Cornell materials scientists have created arrays of atomically flat silicon surfaces -- essentially eliminating these atomic steps and overcoming one of the major hurdles to further miniaturization. atomstep.lb.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. at Cornell University now will begin exchanging information with scientists in developing countries, beginning with Mexico, on vaccines that are easier to deliver, thanks to a new Rockefeller Foundation grant. Traditional vaccines that inoculate children against enteric diseases, such as diarrhea and cholera, are very expensive to send to developing countries. Arntzen and BTI researchers are developing genetically changed foods that are grown with the vaccine already in them as a cheap and easy way to deliver vaccines to children throughout the world. For example, the BTI researchers are working on genetically installing some oral vaccines into bananas. bananagrant.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Juris Hartmanis, the Walter R. Read Professor of Engineering and professor of computer science at Cornell University, has been appointed assistant director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate of Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE). An expert in the theory of computation and computational complexity, Hartmanis will lead the directorate which has responsibility for NSF's efforts with the Internet, supercomputers, robotics and intelligent systems, information processing systems and computational research. Hartmanis.lb.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- A tree won't grow in Brooklyn. Cornell University scientists have confirmed what they believe is the first known infestation of an Asian longhorned beetle, Anoplophora glabripennis, a large beetle that is attacking Brooklyn's horsechestnut and Norway maple tree population. beetle.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Humans and other "higher" animals aren't so special when it comes to making life-or-death decisions in an instant, a Cornell University study of insect hearing has found. Even the lowly cricket employs a sophisticated capability, called categorical perception, when its life (or love life ) is at stake. "Crickets -- and probably many other types of animals -- have found a simple way to build a system that responds quickly," said Robert A. Wyttenbach, the Cornell postgraduate associate of neurobiology and behavior who gave crickets a perception test originally developed for human infants. "Crickets have to make a yes-or-no decision in a hurry, and ones that waffle become bat bait." cricket2.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Until Cornell University undergraduate students on a mycology field trip found mysterious fungal "fruiting bodies" rising from an eviscerated beetle grub, little was known of the mold that produces a life-saving pharmaceutical for organ transplantation -- the immunosuppressant, cyclosporin. Now, Tolypocladium inflatum, the white mold from Norway that makes cyclosporin and other biologically important compounds, is out of the closet, so to speak, as reported in the September-October issue of the journal Mycologia. In its sexual state, T. inflatum is actually Cordyceps subsessilis, an extremely rare fungus that has been reported only five or six times before. cyclosporine.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- For Cornell University biologist John P. Berry, knowing the punch line to the joke, "Where does an 800-pound gorilla eat?" is not enough. Certainly, the mountain gorillas he studies in Uganda's Bwindi impenetrable forest eat wherever they want. Whatever, too. But why is the key question in the field of zoopharmacognosy, the study of animals that use plants for medicine. Berry, a graduate student in the laboratory of noted Cornell phytochemist Eloy Rodriguez, knows enough about Gorilla gorilla beringei's dietary preferences to open Gorilla My Dreams Cafe. He is focusing on a fruit with anti-bacterial properties that even the savvy apes may not understand. gorilla.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The boredom and isolation of life in a nursing home, the shortage of mentors for inquisitive children, the need for more greenery in the world -- all can be addressed through intergenerational cooperation, according to a Cornell University horticulturist with a plan to send senior citizens back to school. Horticulture Intergenerational Learning as Therapy (HILT) came about because Vincent Lalli, a schoolteacher-turned-graduate-student in Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, hated to see keen minds and skilled hands idle. The result: Adults in their 80s and 90s are visiting schools to teach kids about plants, using a hands-on science curriculum developed by Cornell educators and horticulturists. gradoutreach.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- As cool as it seemed, temperatures around the Northeast in August averaged close to the monthly normal, said Keith Eggleston, regional climatologist with the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University. The regional average temperature was just 0.2 degrees warmer than normal. NRCC.aug96.bpf.html

GENEVA, N.Y. -- Cornell University and the University of Hawaii today unveiled two lines of papaya that could save the $45 million Hawaiian papaya industry. "SunUp" and "Rainbow" look and taste like their "Sunset" predecessor and are resistant to the papaya ringspot virus (PRSV), which is destroying the Hawaiian crop. Papaya is the nation's first genetically engineered fruit crop to be cleared for eventual commercial production. The USDA removed regulatory restrictions on growing the two new cultivars earlier this month. papaya.lm.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Last winter's mish-mash of weather sent bird-watchers to their field guides as species showed up where they're usually not. Documenting irruptions of seldom-seen species throughout North America were thousands of participants in a volunteer-run and scientifically based program, the legions of Project FeederWatch. Analysis of Project FeederWatch's 1995-96 reports at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology showed normally North-wintering birds to be feeding throughout the continent; apparent population shifts among house finches, which suffer a contagious eye disease; more rare-bird sightings; and an unsettling trend for the squeamish: more songbird-eating hawks at the feeders. feederwatch95-96.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University chemists have garnered three of the American Chemical Society's 10 Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards for 1997, and a fourth member of the chemistry faculty, Harold A. Scheraga, has earned the ACS Award for Computers in Chemical and Pharmaceutical Research. The three Cope Scholars are: professors of chemistry Barry K. Carpenter, David B. Collum and Jon C. Clardy, the Horace White Professor of Chemistry. Arthur C. Cope Scholar Awards recognize excellence in the field of organic chemistry and require the recipient to deliver a lecture at the annual Cope symposium held in conjunction with the ACS national meeting in August 1997 in Las Vegas, Nev. ACSawards.rh.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Almost 50 years ago, physicists determined the value of one of the fundamental fixed values of physics, the fine structure constant, using quantum electrodynamics theory -- or did they? Through an interplay of laboratory experiment and theoretical work, physicists have improved on the value of the fine structure constant seeking ever increasing accuracy. According to Toichiro Kinoshita, Cornell University professor of physics, there is still room for improvement. Quantum electrodynamics is the basic theory of physics that explains how electrons interact through the electromagnetic force, which is transferred by photons. Electrons absorb and emit photons during their interactions. The probability that this will occur is expressed by the value of the fine structure constant. "This constant plays an important role in the theoretical structure of physics and is also important to metrology, the science of weights and measures," Kinoshita explained. His method of measuring this constant is based on the study of a subtle change of the magnetic moment of the electron due to its interaction with photons (the electron anomaly). Kinoshita.mc.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Microscopic examination has revealed the defense secret of a tiny millipede that was entangling its enemies millions of years before porcupines and Velcro came along. As reported in the Oct. 1 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) by Thomas Eisner, Maria Eisner and Mark Deyrup, the millipede Polyxenus fasciculatus confronts ants and other attackers with its rear. Located there are brush-like tufts of detachable bristles with a horrible surprise for the predators: multipronged grappling hooks at the bristle ends to latch onto hairlike setae of the attacking insects and barbs along the shafts to link the bristles in an often-inescapable mesh. porcupine.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Every year, more than 3 million American children -- including more than 211,000 in New York -- are reported abused or neglected. Each day, three children die from such maltreatment. Cornell University, the land-grant university of New York is combating this daily tragedy. Its Family Life Development Center (FLDC), an interdisciplinary unit with the mandate to help prevent family stress, with an emphasis on abuse prevention, sponsors a variety of programs to identify, reduce and prevent child maltreatment. These programs range from training Child Protective Services caseworkers and residential child care workers to researching various aspects of family violence and evaluating assessment tools and treatment interventions. abuse.training.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Students enrolled in the four statutory colleges at Cornell University are receiving good news this week. Thanks to the elimination of a proposed tuition increase for the State University of New York (SUNY) when the state budget was passed on July 13, most students in the statutory colleges will see tuition reductions ranging from $125 to $305 per semester. The Executive Committee of Cornell's Board of Trustees will vote on the new tuition rates at its Sept. 12 meeting in New York City. statutory.tuition.lgk.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Herman Garfunkel knew in 1941 that the Nazis soon would be forcing him and the other Latvian Jews into the ghetto. So he entrusted a prized possession -- the family's Hebrew Bible, translated into German -- to the tenants renting the upper floor of his Riga, Latvia, home. The Sochinskis, in turn, promised to return the Bible to Garfunkel when the war was over. Two weeks later, the Garfunkels were, indeed, sent to the ghetto, and Herman's mother, sister and brother were killed just three weeks after their arrival. But Herman survived, and, 54 years later, he would live to see the Bible returned to him -- and restored for posterity by a book conservator at Cornell University. BibleDean.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Freedom of expression in cyberspace: Should there be any limits? If so, who should decide what the rules will be? Those topics will be addressed in a lecture at Cornell University titled "Sex, Lies, and the Internet: Some New and Not So New Questions about Free Expression in Cyberspace" by David G. Post, co-founder and co-director of the Cyberspace Law Institute and visiting associate professor of law at Georgetown University's Law Center. The lecture, free and open to the public, will be presented Monday, Sept. 16, in Goldwin Smith D Auditorium at 8 p.m. as this year's Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press Fellowship Program. Kops_Lecture.lgk.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell University Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City on Thursday, Sept. 12. The meeting will be held in Room A/B of the Cornell Club of New York, 6 East 44th St., at 2 p.m. In open session at the beginning of the meeting, the committee will vote on revised tuition rates for the university's four statutory colleges. Under the revised schedule, most students in the statutory colleges will see tuition reductions ranging from $125 to $305 per semester. Trustee.9_12.advance.jkp.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University's Community Report and Campus Events publication is being mailed this week to almost 40,000 households in Tompkins County. The 16-page report includes an expanded calendar that includes cultural, performing arts and athletic events on campus. Community.Report.96_97.dis.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Richard Meier, architect of the Getty Center -- the $770 million arts and cultural complex under construction in the Santa Monica Mountains -- heads a list of distinguished artists, educators and critics who will offer insight into America's cultural climate and artistic professions during a symposium Oct. 4 and 5 at Cornell University. Meier is a 1957 graduate of Cornell's program in architecture. The symposium is part of the 125th anniversary celebration of Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning. Arch.celebration.djg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Alumni Association of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University will honor six alumni at the association's annual alumni awards banquet on Friday, Sept. 20. The event will be held in the Triphammer Lodge & Conference Center (formerly the Sheraton) on Triphammer Road at 6 p.m. Individuals may register for the banquet by contacting the Agriculture and Life Sciences Alumni Association at 265 Roberts Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. 14853, by Sept. 13. For information, call (607) 255-7651. alsalumawards.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- William G. McMinn, who stepped down in June after serving 12 years as dean of Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art and Planning, has been named director of the School of Design at Florida International University (FIU) in Miami. Associate Dean Stanley Bowman has been named acting dean of the college. A member of the Cornell faculty since 1973, Bowman will serve as dean until a new dean is appointed. McMinn.djg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University's Gannett Health Center is consolidating its services, renovating its space, revising its fee structure and improving its student insurance plan this fall to accommodate changing health care patterns nationwide and to better serve its clients, Janet Corson-Rikert, M.D., University Health Services (UHS) director announced recently. Among the changes, the health center has instituted a $10 co-payment for students' clinician and psychological services therapist visits. The $10 per visit co-payment fee, which pays a portion of the cost of each visit to a clinician or therapist, applies to all students, including those on the Cornell Student Health Insurance Plan. Gannett.changes.jkp.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Three renowned speakers -- a historian, a psychoanalyst and a geophysicist -- will visit the Cornell University campus this month and next as A. D. White Professors-at-Large, giving public lectures and making themselves available to all members of the Cornell community. George Mosse, Juliet Mitchell and Frank Press are three of Cornell's 16 current professors-at-large, outstanding individuals from the sciences, humanities and arts who, over six-year terms, make periodic visits to Cornell and are considered full members of the faculty. All three of this semester's visitors started their terms in 1993 and will speak at 4:30 p.m. in the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall. 1996_prof-at-large.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- William Foote Whyte, the Cornell sociologist who authored an early examination on street gangs culture, has received a newly established award from the American Sociological Association (ASA) for his "significant contribution to the practice of sociology." The award is a double honor for the Cornell professor emeritus, as it will bear his name and be known as the William Foote Whyte Award. Whyte was honored at a meeting of the ASA in New York City last month. The award was presented by the Sociological Practice Section of the ASA. Whyte_award.djg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Deane W. Malott, Cornell University president from 1951 to 1963, passed away on Wednesday, Sept. 11, at his home in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 98. Malott became Cornell's sixth president in 1951. He presided over a period of rapid expansion of the university in the post--World War II years. Under his direction, Cornell's budget grew from $42 million at the start of his tenure to $110 million, faculty salaries increased by more than 60 percent, and growth in sponsored research grew from less than $15 million to more than $45 million annually. Malott.obit.jkp.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Charles F. Knight, chairman and chief executive officer of Emerson Electric Co., will deliver the Hatfield Address on "American Industry Approaching the Millennium" Sept. 26 at 4:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall on the Cornell campus. Cornell President Hunter Rawlings will introduce Knight. The lecture is free and open to the public. EmersonCEOSpeaks.djg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University alumni will revisit their alma mater the weekend of Sept. 20-22 for Homecoming 1996, the university's annual fall celebration featuring educational, athletic and social events for all members of the Cornell community. Highlights will include, naturally, Saturday's Big Red football game -- this year against the Princeton Tigers, the current Ivy League champions; kickoff is Sept. 21 at noon in Schoellkopf Field. At the all-alumni pregame rally and tailgate party, alumni can meet President Hunter Rawlings and Elizabeth Trapnell Rawlings, Athletic Director Charlie Moore '51 and the 1996 Athletic Hall of Fame inductees; festivities begin at 10 a.m. in the Lynah Rink parking lot tent. homecoming.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- A New York State Supreme Court Justice has issued a ruling upholding Cornell University's sexual harassment procedures in a $1.5 million lawsuit brought against Cornell by a tenured professor. State Supreme Court Justice Phillip R. Rumsey issued his decision in the case of Maas v. Cornell University on Sept. 10. Maas_decision_final.tms.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- While Andrew Dickson White's role in helping to found Cornell University has been rightfully celebrated, his prowess as a book collector has gotten short shrift, say Mark G. Dimunation, Cornell's curator of rare books, and Elaine D. Engst, university archivist. That may be because, over four decades, White's acquisitiveness was decidedly utilitarian: he was more interested in procuring items that would shed light on major historical events such as the French Revolution and the Civil War than in acquiring items for their aesthetic or monetary value. "Part of what was unusual about White's collection is that he was collecting popular culture," Engst said. "So you have everyday items, as well as the really high-end items." Now through Sept. 28, members of the Cornell and greater Ithaca communities can view many of these artifacts -- including Medieval illuminated manuscripts and Matthew Hopkins' 1647 text The Discovery of Witches -- in "A Legacy of Ideas: Andrew Dickson White and the Founding of the Cornell University Library" in the Carl A. Kroch Library Gallery. The exhibit is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturday from 1 to 5 p.m. ADWhite.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- At the request of Cornell University, the permitting process for the replacement incinerator at the university's College of Veterinary Medicine has been suspended by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), and the university is inviting community and campus groups to participate in an advisory committee on the project. In response to a number of concerns voiced by community members, Cornell asked the State University Construction Fund (SUCF), lead agency on the project, to request that the DEC delay the process until additional data on a number of questions can be generated and evaluated. The permitting process was halted Aug. 7. Cornell is in the process of reaching out to community and campus organizations to join a community advisory committee that will discuss all aspects of the incinerator issue. Franklin M. Loew, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine, and Harold D. Craft, Cornell vice president for facilities and campus services, will co-chair the committee. Incinerator2.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- A memorial service for Ron LaFrance, former director of the Cornell University American Indian Program, will be held at Cornell on Friday, Oct. 4. The service will be held in Sage Chapel from 2 to 3 p.m., followed by a reception at Akwe:kon at 3:30 p.m. LaFrance_mem.lgk.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Alumni Association of Cornell University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) will honor George J. Conneman and Bernard F. Stanton, professors of agricultural economics, with the association's Outstanding Faculty Award at the annual alumni awards banquet on Friday, Sept. 20. While this will be the first year of presentation of this award, this is the 20th year the CALS Alumni Association has presented the awards to recognize outstanding alumni of the college. This year's Outstanding Alumni Award recipients will be: Philip Coombe Jr., Grahamsville, N.Y.; Richard E. Keene, Gilbertsville, N.Y.; Richard T. Meister, Willoughby, Ohio; J. Patrick Mulcahy, Clayton, Mo.; Charles E. Wille, Montgomery, N.Y.; and Robin L. Baker, New York City. ALS.fac.award.html

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Preventing insurance and telephone fraud, learning which state agencies and legislative committees do what in serving consumers and better understanding consumer legislation and regulatory processes and policies in New York will be the focus of a free workshop, Making and Enforcing Consumer Policy, on Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 16-17, at the Empire State Plaza in Albany. Co-sponsored by Cornell Cooperative Extension, the Department of Consumer Economics and Housing at Cornell University and the New York State Consumer Protection Board, the workshop is intended to give consumer educators, teachers, extension staff, consumer advocates, concerned consumers, community decision-makers and government officials who work with consumers a flavor of recent New York consumer legislation and regulatory processes and policies and how they affect consumers, said Lois Wright Morton, senior extension associate at Cornell and workshop organizer. consumer.policy.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University's statutory colleges will hold two special events this fall: Open House and Transfer Day. Young people interested in learning about undergraduate admission to three state-assisted colleges at Cornell are encouraged to attend. Open House , Saturday, Oct. 19: This event provides high school juniors and seniors, as well as their parents, the opportunity to visit the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the College of Human Ecology and the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Visitors will receive an overview of Cornell and the academic programs in the three colleges. High school students and their parents are invited to campus to meet admissions staff, faculty and current Cornell students. The program will include admissions and financial aid information. Transfer DayFriday, Nov. 1: College students interested in continuing their education at Cornell should consider visiting on Transfer Day. The statutory colleges will discuss general academic information and transfer admissions policies. Students may attend a class, meet with faculty members, join currently enrolled students for lunch and talk with admissions representatives. openhouse.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell students, including members of fraternity and sorority councils, and Collegetown residents will take to the streets of Collegetown on Saturday, Sept. 28, Public Service Day. Activities include cleaning neighborhood sidewalks, streets, utility poles and open spaces. Volunteers will gather at 10 a.m. in front of Collegetown Motor Lodge, 312 College Ave. From there, teams of students and year-round residents will begin their clean-up effort. Collegetown_cleanup.996.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University announced today (Sept. 22, 1996) that the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) of the U.S. Department of Education has closed its investigation of a complaint alleging that the University maintains racially- and ethnically-segregated residence halls. No violation of applicable civil rights laws and regulations was established. programhousingruling.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Ten artists and intellectuals with personal and professional ties to Algeria will visit Cornell University next week for a conference on the political and cultural issues facing this violence-racked nation in northern Africa. "Algeria: In and Out of French" will run Thursday, Oct. 3, through Saturday, Oct. 5. Free and open to the public, it is being organized by Cornell's Program in French Studies and will address such topics as the complex relations between politics and language (Algerians speak Algerian, Arabic, French and Berber) and the sexual politics of Algeria, where divorced, working and non-veiled women and even young girls have been killed by fundamentalist factions. Algeria.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Walter Kohn, professor of physics emeritus at the University of California at Santa Barbara and winner of the National Medal of Science, will be the Hans A. Bethe Lecturer at Cornell University. Kohn will give a free, public lecture, "Shifting Viewpoints in Condensed Matter Physics, 1950-1995," on Wednesday, Oct. 2, at 8 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall. bethelecture.ltb.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Cornell University has received a $3 million, six-year grant from the Park Foundation of Ithaca, N.Y., to initiate new biodiversity projects. "The study of global biodiversity is a priority of the United Nations Development Program and many national agencies around the world. The Boyce Thompson Institute has specific expertise that can enhance these international efforts," said Charles J. Arntzen, president and CEO of the institute. btipark.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Hey kids! Take your parents and friends on a behind-the-scenes tour of Cornell University's Animal Science Teaching & Research Center in Dryden, N.Y., on Saturday, Oct. 5. This free open house offers tours from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. "This is a chance for families to see dairy cattle, beef cattle and sheep," said Harold Hintz, Cornell professor and chair of the animal science department. "We'll even show you how cows are milked." The research facility tours are designed for a non-agricultural audience, where families can talk to professors and researchers about animal science. Showcasing the feedstuffs and care of the animals, the tour will show visitors how cows make milk and how sheep's wool can become a favorite sweater. cowtour.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- A two-day symposium, "American Society: Diversity and Consensus," will be held at Cornell University on Sunday and Monday, Oct. 20-21, both to honor Robin W. Williams Jr., the Henry Scarborough Professor Emeritus of Social Science at Cornell, and to consider a key challenge in contemporary American society. Sunday's talks will be in the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:45 p.m., and Monday's will be in the Statler Hotel Amphitheater, 8:45 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. The talks are free to members of the Cornell community and open to the public for a nominal fee diversity.conference.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Facility Planning and Management Program at Cornell University, the first undergraduate program of its kind, is now the first such program in the world to be officially recognized by the International Facilities Management Association (IFMA). After a rigorous review, the IFMA's task force, which has been working on setting standards for undergraduate programs for 10 years, gave Cornell its official stamp of approval in July. Five other colleges and universities have since received similar official recognition. facility.program.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cˇsar Gaviria, president of Colombia from 1990 to 1994 and secretary-general of the Organization of American States (OAS) since September 1994, will deliver a public lecture on Tuesday, Oct. 1, at Cornell University. Gaviria's visit to Cornell is sponsored by the Johnson Graduate School of Management and its Latin American Business Association, the Latin American Studies Program, the Colombian Student Association and the International Business Association. Gaviria will present "Integrating the Americas: Opportunities and Challenges" at 4 p.m. in the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium of Kennedy Hall. Gaviria.djg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Antonio M. Gotto Jr., M.D., has been appointed Cornell University's Provost for Medical Affairs and the Stephen and Suzanne Weiss Dean of the Medical College in New York City, President Hunter Rawlings announced today (Sept. 25, 1996). Gotto is currently the Bob and Vivian Smith Professor and chair of the Margaret M. and Albert B. Alkek Department of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine and the Methodist Hospital in Houston. A nationally renowned researcher, Gotto and his associates were the first to achieve the complete synthesis of a plasma apolipoprotein (apo C-I), and they determined the complete cDNA and amino acid sequence of apo B-100, one of the largest proteins ever sequenced and a key protein in atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. Gotto.appt.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Into the Streets, a program of the Public Service Center at Cornell University, is sponsoring its sixth annual Fall Service Day on Saturday, Sept. 28, from 9:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. On that day, several hundred Cornell students, faculty and staff will join with members of the Ithaca community in a day of public service projects. More than 120 college campuses across the country participate in Into the Streets, which was created to introduce students to thoughtful community service and to provide a learning experience that challenges them to volunteer on a regular basis. The mission of Into the Streets at Cornell, student organizers say, is to foster continuing connections between the university and the greater Ithaca community through education programs and meaningful social action. Into_the_Streets.sfm.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- A memorial service for Deane W. Malott, Cornell University president from 1951 to 1963, will be held Sunday, Oct. 20, at 3 p.m. at Sage Chapel on campus. Malott passed away on Sept. 11 at his home in Ithaca, N.Y. He was 98. Malott.memorial.jkp.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Byron S.J. Weng, professor of government and public administration at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and member of the Mainland Affairs Council, Executive Yuan -- which guides Taiwan's policy toward mainland China -- will deliver three Messenger Lectures at Cornell University this fall. The theme of the lectures is "China's 'One Country, Two Systems' Policy and Its Implications for Sino-American Relations." All lectures are free and open to the public. messenger.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) at Cornell University has established the Jack Sheinkman Chair of Collective Bargaining in honor of the former president of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU). Sheinkman will visit campus Monday, Sept. 30, to meet with faculty and students. Sheinkman, who earned a bachelor's degree from the ILR School in 1949 and a juris doctorate from the Cornell Law School in 1952, was elected president emeritus of ACTWU last year after having served as secretary-treasurer and co-chief executive officer of the union. The merger last year of ACTWU with the International Ladies Garment Workers Union created a new organization, called the Union of Needle Trades and Industrial Textile Workers (UNITE). Sheinkman.djg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Mark P. Mostert, Ph.D., assistant professor of education at Moorhead State University, Minn., will lecture on "Bandwagons, Band-Aids and Beliefs: Some Thoughts on the Efficacy of Special Education," on Monday, Sept. 30, at 4:30 p.m., Room 345, Warren Hall, Cornell University. The lecture is free and open to the public. Mostert will focus on recent developments in special education. Mostert.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Albert Murray may be 80 years old, but his last novel featured a character fresh out of college with dreams of becoming a professional jazz musician. The dual searches for individual identity and for the essence of jazz and blues music have been dominant themes in the life and work of this renowned cultural critic and writer. On Monday, Oct. 7, Murray will share his revelations in a lecture at Cornell University titled "Some Literary Implications of the Blues" at 8 p.m. in Room 165 of McGraw Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public and will be accentuated by recorded passages from classic blues compositions. murray.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Stanley Hoffmann, the Douglas Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France at Harvard University, will give a lecture titled "France and Europe" at Cornell University Monday, Oct. 7, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public and is part of the University Lectures series. univlecture.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Area agriculturists and dairy farmers are invited to an open house at Maple Lane Manor, a 100--milking cow, tie-stall dairy, located in Apulia Station, N.Y., on Wednesday, Oct. 2 from noon to 3 p.m. Maple Lane Manor has served as a Cornell University demonstration site for energy monitoring and efficiency improvements since the spring of 1995. It is owned by Ben and Carolyn Turner. Farm energy use for the major barn-related operations, water use and site temperature have now been monitored for more than a year. The information serves to prove energy-efficiency improvements at the farm. The Turners installed a tunnel ventilation system this spring for summer ventilation and, as a result, electricity usage was reduced by at least 50 percent, while both barn ventilation and summer milk production improved. farmopenhouse.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Some of North America's most misunderstood animals, the timber wolves, will try to set the record straight in a live appearance Sunday, Oct. 6 at 7 p.m. in Cornell University's Statler Auditorium. The "Mission: Wolf" presentation, with animals and handlers from the wolf sanctuary in Silver Cliff, Colo., is organized by Ecology House at Cornell and is free to the public with a suggested $1 to $2 donation. wolf.hrs.html