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ITHACA, N.Y. -- Although high school women are more concerned about their weight than men are about theirs, the women are more willing than men to date an overweight person. Once married, obese husbands are less happy with their marriages than other men, but men who have lost weight report fewer marital problems than obese or average-weight men or men who have gained weight during marriage. Obese wives, on the other hand, are happier with their marriages than average-weight wives. While newly-married women gain more weight than other wives do, or men do proportionately, few gain a lot during their first year of marriage. These are some of the recent findings of Jeffery Sobal, a Cornell nutritional sociologist who studies the sociology of obesity and the relationship between obesity and dating, marriage and marital satisfaction. marriage.obesity.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Much too common for some people's tastes and largely neglected by ornithologists, the plain old American crow gets special attention from one Cornell University researcher. Kevin J. McGowan and his Cornell student helpers prepare their climbing gear each spring and ascend to the tree-top nests where they tag young crows four weeks after they hatch. As one result of his study, under way since 1989, hundreds of crows around the Ithaca, N.Y., home of Cornell look like they're about to run a marathon, with color- and letter-coded tags on their wings. In a sense they are, although the birds' behavior when they return home is of more interest to McGowan, the associate curator in the university's Mammology and Ornithology Collections and a senior research associate in the Section of Ecology and Systematics. He documents a none-too-common inclination among birds of any kind: American crows (Corvus brachyrhynchos) tend to hang around home for years to help their parents raise more crows. crow.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Mother Nature had its own April Fools' prank in store for the Northeast -- it took only the first day of this month to record the snowiest April ever for Boston, Worcester, Mass., and Providence, R.I., according to the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University. "Certainly, it was a very significant storm," said Keith Eggleston, climatologist at the center, describing what is being called the Great April Fools' Day Storm of 1997. It took only hours for a powerful Nor'easter to dump enough snow on many Northeastern locations to start setting records. "If this storm had occurred in any part of winter, it would have been a significant storm." NRCC.SpringSnow.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- What started as a casual screening of raspberry varieties in the greenhouse grew into a graduate student class project and may soon blossom into a large-scale, full-fledged agricultural industry for New York: fresh, sweet raspberries in winter. "A lot of greenhouses sit empty up here between December and April," said Marvin Pritts, Cornell professor of fruit and vegetable science. "Once the poinsettias are gone, the growers have empty greenhouses through April. Until they're ready with their bedding plants, raspberries may be a great crop for these growers." raspberries.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Trying to cope with red flashing lights on green moving objects, the human visual system is tricked into revealing where yellow -- and all other colors -- apparently are composed: in the visual cortex of the brain. The red, green and blue cone receptors in the retina merely pass along signals for the brain to make sense of, Cornell University psychologist Romi Nijhawan concludes from an experiment that may confirm, once and for all, the "central synthesis" theory of human color vision. vision.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Robert H. Foote, Cornell professor emeritus of animal science and a pioneer in cloning, will testify at hearings before the New York State Assembly Committee on Science and Technology on April 14 at the Roosevelt Hearing Room C, Second Floor, Legislative Office Building in Albany, N.Y. The hearings begin at 10:30 a.m. EDT Assemblyman Robert K. Sweeney (D-Lindenhurst) will chair the hearing. This is the second New York legislative hearing in which Foote has participated since the news in February that Scottish scientists have successfuly cloned a sheep from mammary cells. Foote will offer a statement on cloning and the value of cloning research. He believes that cloning offers scientists opportunities to help those suffering from medical conditions and that it has important implications for agriculture. Foote.Albany.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The public is bombarded with nutritional "information du jour" that, in general, provides poor guidance for individual and public decisions, a Cornell University nutrition expert says. Yet, applying science-based knowledge for healthier populations is no simple feat. "The process of implementing knowledge into nutrition policy requires expertise from the microbiological to the macro-sociological and is very undeveloped in the field of nutrition," said Cutberto Garza, M.D., professor and director of the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell. To help develop general principles to guide this process, Garza and Cornell colleagues Jere Haas, professor of nutritional sciences; Jean-Pierre Habicht, M.D., the James Jamison Professor of Nutritional Epidemiology; and David Pelletier, associate professor of nutritional sciences, edited the recently published monograph, Beyond Nutritional Recommendations: Implementing Science for Healthier Populations (Division of Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University: 1996). It is based on a 1995 three-day interdisciplinary symposium organized by the Cornell nutritionists that focused on how science-based information can be used to improve nutrition policy. nutrition.book.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cats with the annoying habit of spraying urine on vertical surfaces are needed at the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine for a clinical trial of a new treatment. The study, which seeks urine-marking cats within driving distance of Ithaca, N.Y., will ask two questions: Are there underlying medical problems in this behavior? And can cats be chemically persuaded to leave their marks by rubbing their cheeks instead of raising their tails? spraying.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Although personality disorders can cause long-term suffering and disability, they are difficult to detect. As a result, many people go untreated. A new screening procedure, developed at Cornell University Medical College and tested at Cornell University in Ithaca, coupled with a follow-up interview, reliably identified persons with personality pathology with a self-administered true-false questionnaire. In the second stage, those identified with possible personality disorders are interviewed by a professional clinician to confirm or discount an actual personality diagnosis, reports Mark Lenzenweger, Ph.D., a psychopathologist at Cornell in Ithaca. detecting.disorders.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Ordinary people are much more adept at scientific reasoning than most psychological literature gives them credit for, argues a Cornell University expert in cognitive development in a new book. "Most of the psychological literature that examines nonscientists' ability to reason scientifically largely ignores several principles that are crucial to scientific inquiry and that nonscientists, in fact, typically use," said Barbara Koslowski, associate professor of human development at Cornell and the author of the new book, Theory and Evidence: The Development of Scientific Reasoning (MIT Press, 1996, $40). koslowski.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell University Institute for Animal Welfare has been established to foster discussion and research on issues concerning animals in agriculture, laboratories and the wild. Based in the College of Veterinary Medicine, the institute will provide financial support for studies by Cornell-affiliated researchers and will bring to campus speakers on a range of animal-welfare topics. This is one of the first university-based programs in the United States to provide grants for animal-welfare research. welfare.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Representatives from a dozen agricultural universities and research facilities from around the world finished a three-day meeting April 11 at Cornell University to hammer out details on an alliance to improve diets worldwide. If a memorandum of understanding is signed between all the institutions within the next few months, the alliance could begin assembling agricultural demonstration projects that show how food systems could be improved -- a long-term boon to the food supply and the diets of hundreds of millions of people worldwide. An agreement also would begin the process of upgrading food-systems infrastructures and training within developing countries. FoodSystem.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Children in schools bombarded by frequent aircraft noise don't learn to read as well as children in quiet schools, Cornell University researchers have confirmed. And they have discovered one major reason: kids tune out speech in the racket. "We've known for a long time that chronic noise is having a devastating effect on the academic performance of children in noisy homes and schools," says Gary Evans, an international expert on environmental stress, such as noise, crowding and air pollution. "This study shows that children don't tune out sound per se, rather they have difficulty acquiring speech recognition skills." noise.reading.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- More than 20 student organizations at Cornell University with interest in Latin American and Latino culture will present "Festival Grande" April 5 through 14, featuring concerts, dance performances, films, lectures, food tastings and more."Because of linguistic, cultural, ethnic and economic differences, members of the various Latino and Latin American communities at Cornell have maintained limited contact with each other. This needs to change," said graduate student Mercedes Franco, of the Colombian Students Association and Promocion de Actividades sobre Latinoamerica (PALA), a new group leading the festival effort. festival.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Andy Garcia-Rivera, director of environmental health and safety at Cornell University, issued the following statement in response to an incident that occurred earlier today: "This morning an emergency call was made to Cornell Police after a passerby observed what appeared to be a body lying at the bottom of Cascadilla Gorge near the footbridge behind Hollister Hall. This call triggered a full emergency response involving Cornell Police, Cornell Environmental Health and Safety's 418 team, Ithaca Fire Department, Ithaca Police and Bangs Ambulance. I am writing to express my outrage to those responsible for this highly insensitive prank, which resulted in unnecessary risk-taking by emergency response personnel. Gorgestatement.lgk.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- In the weeks to come, Cornell University may seem even more cosmopolitan than usual. International Festival is upon us, this year with the theme "United Colors of Cornell." "International Festival is a chance for the Cornell and Ithaca communities to gather together to experience a variety of international cultures and for students to share a part of their country's heritage with each other," said Sarah Vanderslice, vice president for public relations of the International Student Program Board, the umbrella organization for the many groups organizing the festival. She noted that Cornell currently has 2,609 international students and 1,446 international teaching and research scholars. international.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- In the year to come, a bevy of Cornell's best and brightest will study not high above Cayuga's waters, but along the Isis -- as the River Thames is known in Oxford, England. Just last December, three Cornell students won prestigious Rhodes and Marshall scholarships for study in Oxford's hallowed halls, and now another has learned he will head there in October on a Keasbey Scholarship. Andrew T. Chrisomalis, a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences from Oradell, N. J., is one of only four American students this year to receive the coveted Keasbey, which provides for two years of study at Oxford and other select British universities. A dozen U.S. colleges and universities, including Harvard, Yale and Princeton, participate in the competition on a rotating basis; Cornell can nominate students every three years. Chrisomalis is the fifth Cornell student to be named a Keasbey Scholar since the university began participating in the competition in 1979. He will be studying at Oxford's Balliol College. keasbey.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Workplace and ergonomic specialists from Cornell University will be available statewide via a satellite video conference on April 29 through Cornell Cooperative Extension to address issues relating to workplace safety and efficiency. Three Cornell professors, all in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis in the university's College of Human Ecology, will participate in the panel discussion "Planning for a Safe, Efficient Workplace." safe.office.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Yervant Terzian, the James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences and chairman of the astronomy department at Cornell University, received an honorary doctor of science degree from the University of Thessaloniki in Greece on March 17. Three days of celebration included an address by Terzian on "The Values of Science," which he delivered in Greek, a physics colloquium on "Extrasolar Planets" and an astronomy colloquium on "Radio Astronomy at Arecibo Observatory." Terzianaward.lb.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Olive Tjaden, a pioneering architect who supervised the design of more than 400 homes from the 1920s to the 1940s in Garden City, Long Island, including many of that community's grand mansions, died March 15, 1997, in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. She was 92. Tjaden, who for many years was the only woman member of the American Institute of Architects, was considered the most prominent woman architect in the Northeast for more than two decades. tjadenobit.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Ward Laboratory at Cornell University, which houses a small-scale nuclear reactor for research and teaching, is now the Ward Center for Nuclear Sciences, a campuswide center to serve researchers and students throughout the university as well as industry. With the Cornell Board of Trustees approving the change in January, the Ward Center becomes a unit under the vice president for research and advanced studies rather than in the College of Engineering, making it a true universitywide research and teaching facility. WardLab.lb.html

-- 1:30 p.m.: Introduction by Cornell President Hunter Rawlings and Kord. -- 2 p.m.: "The Psychoanalytic Construction of Creativity" by Donald Kuspit, A. D. White Professor at Large at Cornell and professor of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Kuspit, one of America's most distinguished art critics, is a winner of the prestigious Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism (1983) given by the College Art Association. He is a contributing editor at Artforum, Sculpture and New Art Examiner and is editor of Art Criticism. Kuspit, who has studied at the Psychoanalytic Institute of the New York University Medical Center, is author of Signs of Psyche in Modern and Postmodern Art (1994), Health and Happiness in Twentieth Century Avant-Garde Art (with Lynn Gamwell; Cornell University Press, 1996) and Idiosyncratic Identities: Artists at the End of the Avant-Garde (1996). creativity.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Abby Joseph Cohen, managing director and co-chair of the Investment Policy Committee of Goldman, Sachs & Co., will deliver the 1997 Durland Lecture on Wednesday, April 9, at Cornell University. Cohen, a Cornell alumna, trustee fellow and member of the University Investment Committee, will present "The Fabulous U.S. Economy and the Corresponding Bull Market" at 4:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall. durlandlect'97.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur will give a poetry reading Thursday, April 10, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall at Cornell University. The reading is free and open to the public. wilbur.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The ethical issues of access, privacy and commercialization on the Internet are the topics for a panel discussion at Cornell University on April 10. The program, "Ethical Issues of the Internet," features experts from Cornell and elsewhere who will discuss issues facing society as the Internet and the global World Wide Web reach an increasing number of people. The event, free and open to the public, is scheduled for 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 10, in Room 101 Phillips Hall. It will include time for audience questioning following the presentations. Bovay.lb.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- After a two-year search, Peter M. Siegel has been named director of Cornell University Network and Computing Systems. Siegel, who has been executive director and director of corporate partnership for Cornell's Center for Theory and Simulation in Science and Engineering, takes over responsibility for the university's voice, data and video networks, central computer systems and file servers at a time when all of those systems have become essential to the campus and when most of them are undergoing major changes. siegel.release.bs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit (Tcat) General Manager Rod Ghearing has announced the introduction of the Cornell--Downtown Shuttle to complement Tcat's existing city bus service. The new Route 10 will provide express service between the Cornell campus and downtown Ithaca every 10 minutes between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., Monday through Friday, beginning April 10. (See attached route map.) The mid-day shuttle service will allow Cornell commuters to travel to downtown Ithaca and take advantage of the eclectic mix of shops, restaurants and department stores found on and around the Ithaca Commons. tcatroute.dl.html

ITHACA, NY -- Cornell students, including members of fraternities and sororities, and Collegetown residents will clean up the streets of Collegetown on Saturday, April 19. Activities will include cleaning neighborhood sidewalks, streets, utility poles and open spaces. Volunteers will gather at various times beginning 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. collegetowncleanup.ds.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Lt. Col. Oliver L. North will give a free and public lecture at Cornell University on Monday, April 14, at 8 p.m. in Statler Hall Auditorium. Titled "The New Conservative Covenant," the lecture will last approximately an hour and will be followed by 20 minutes for questions. Tickets are not required for the lecture; doors open at 7:30 p.m. Oliver.North.jg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Phillip Valentine Tobias, one of the world's leading experts on prehistoric human ancestors, will give a lecture at Cornell University on Thursday, April 17, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall. The lecture is presented as part of the A.D. White Professors-at-Large series. Tobias is professor of anatomy and human biology emeritus and honorary director of the Palaeo-Anthropology Research Unit of the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa. He will discuss the latest findings on hominid evolution in a lecture titled "Australopithecus After 72 Years: How Does the South African Apeman Stand Today?" prof-at-large.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, one of the key architects of a radically changing NATO, will give a free and public lecture titled "A New NATO, A New Europe" at Cornell University on Thursday, April 24, at 1:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall. He will deliver the lecture to an undergraduate class on U.S. foreign relations as part of a new lecture series made possible by the Walter LaFeber and Joel Silbey Fund in American History. Limited seating will be available in the auditorium for the public and members of the press. Before becoming deputy secretary of state in February 1994, Talbott was ambassador-at-large and special adviser to the secretary of state on the New Independent States. He has held several key positions at Time magazine: editor-at-large, Washington bureau chief, diplomatic correspondent, White House correspondent, State Department correspondent and Eastern Europe correspondent. He twice received the Edward Weintal Prize for distinguished reporting on foreign affairs and diplomacy, in 1980 and 1985. Strobe.Talbott.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University has established an Office of Distance Learning (ODL) to explore ways to extend the boundaries of the university through the use of communication technologies. Creation of the office is one of the first steps in exploring the possibility of using communications technology to make Cornell courses available to people around the world. David B. Lipsky, who served as dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations from 1988 to 1997, has been appointed director of the Office of Distance Learning. During his tenure as dean, the ILR School became the first college at Cornell to pioneer the use of compressed video for interactive master's-level instruction, including classes Lipsky taught from the Ithaca campus to students in New York City. Lipsky currently directs the Cornell/PERC Institute on Conflict Resolution. DistanceLearning.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Three Cornell University undergraduate students have been awarded prestigious 1997 Barry M. Goldwater Scholarships for science and mathematics. The students are: Miroslav Shverdinovsky, a junior in the College of Engineering, from Swampscott, Mass.; Howard Moskowitz, a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, from Great Neck, N.Y.; and Ilarion "Larry" Melnikov, a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, from Evanston, Ill. The Goldwater Scholarship was established in 1986 in recognition of the long government service of Sen. Barry M. Goldwater and to foster and encourage excellence in science and mathematics. Up to 250 awards are made annually, each scholarship providing a maximum of $7,000 per year for tuition, fees, books and room and board. Sophomore applicants are eligible for two years of support; junior applicants are eligible for one year. Goldwater.Scholars.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Acting on an anonymous tip, Cornell Police have charged two freshman students with reckless endangerment in connection with an April Fools' Day prank in which the students allegedly placed a dummy at the bottom of Cascadilla Gorge, resulting in a full emergency response by several campus and city safety units. The students are Samir Kumar and Roman A. Gelfer; both are 18 years old and reside on campus. They were charged with reckless endangerment in the second degree by Investigator Ellen Brewer on April 10. They are scheduled to appear in Ithaca City Court on April 16. Both also have been referred to the campus Judicial Administrator. Gorgearrests.lgk.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Kenneth F. Kahn, founder of LRP Publications and publisher of Human Resource Executive, has received the 1997 Judge William B. Groat Alumni Award from the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Kahn will be honored April 15 at a luncheon at the Grand Hyatt in New York City. The Groat Award, named for the New York State Supreme Court justice who was instrumental in the founding of the ILR School and in drafting its charter, is presented annually to an ILR graduate who has demonstrated exceptional professional accomplishment in the field of industrial and labor relations and outstanding service to the school. groat.djg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Helping no hablo espanol doctors distinguish embarazo (pregnancy) and esforzarse (muscle strain) from escalofrios (chills) is the easy part. Surmounting the cultural barriers between foreign-born workers and the medical help they need -- that's the real challenge for Cornell University students in the Cornell-Finger Lakes Migrant Health Program. migrant.health.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- A two-day discussion of business, environment and urban areas will feature Mary Nichols, assistant administrator for air and radiation at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), speaking Friday, April 18, at 10 a.m. in 253 Malott Hall, Cornell University. The daughter of former Ithaca Mayor Ben Nichols, she will speak on current issues and directions for the EPA. The lecture is free and open to the public. A buffet luncheon and informal case-study discussion will follow in the afternoon. nichols.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University will increase its voluntary contribution to the Ithaca City School District from $150,000 in the current school year to $250,000 next year, university officials announced today. For more than two decades, Cornell has provided the school district with voluntary cash contributions to help improve the quality and variety of programs offered to all children receiving district services. The annual contribution has been made in appreciation of the educational services provided by the district to children living in tax-exempt, university-owned housing. Currently, 34 elementary students and 26 middle- and high-school students enrolled in the district live in university-owned housing. School.District.jp.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Robert A. Brown, the dean of engineering and the Warren K. Lewis Professor of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will deliver the 10th annual Julian C. Smith Lectures in Chemical Engineering at Cornell University on Tuesday, April 22, and Thursday, April 24. Brown will speak on "Czochralski Crystal Growth of Silicon as a Unit Operation" (April 22) and "Thoughts on the Continuing Evolution of Chemical Engineering" (April 24). Both lectures, free and open to the public, will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Room 165 Olin Hall. smithlectures.ltb.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Executive Committee of Cornell University's Board of Trustees will hold a brief open session when it meets in Manhattan at 12:30 p.m., Thursday, April 17, at the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St. The public session, for the meeting's first 20 minutes, will include a report from President Hunter Rawlings; a report from Provost Don M. Randel on the status of the state budget; and a recommendation on the 1998-99 capital budget request for the statutory colleges. trustee.meet.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences honored outstanding teaching and scholarship at its annual Dean's Award Convocation on April 4. Dean Philip E. Lewis led the afternoon celebration in a packed auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall. A&Sconvocation.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Jakob Begun, a Cornell University senior from Wantagh, N.Y., has been awarded a 1997 Winston Churchill Foundation Scholarship to England's Cambridge University. Starting this fall at Churchill College at Cambridge, Begun will pursue a master's degree and do research in X-ray crystallography with Sir Thomas Blundell, Cambridge professor of biochemistry. CHURCHILL.Begun.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Douglas R. Hofstadter, professor of cognitive science and computer science at Indiana University and recipient of a 1980 Pulitzer Prize for his book Gšdel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, will speak at Cornell University on Thursday, April 24, at 7:30 p.m. in Statler Auditorium. The lecture is free, but tickets are required and are available at Willard Straight Hall ticket office and the Graduate School information desk in Caldwell Hall. The lecture is titled "The Magical Dance of Words Across the Language Gap: Musings on Translation and Creativity" and is presented as part of the Graduate School's Olin Lecture Series. Hofstadter.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Pulitzer Prize--winning author and Civil War historian James M. McPherson will speak at Cornell University on Tuesday, April 29, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 165 McGraw Hall in a lecture titled "Was Blood Thicker Than Water? Ethnic and Civic Nationalism in the Civil War." The lecture is free and open to the public. McPherson has been the George Henry Davis Professor of American History at Princeton University since 1991 and has served on Princeton's faculty since 1965. He won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize in history for Battle Cry of Freedom, his history of the American Civil War. mcpherson.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Syracuse Gallery of Superb Printing, which issues awards for outstanding examples of printing in Central New York, has honored Cayuga Press of Ithaca with 15 awards -- two of them for publications from Cornell University's Akwe:kon Press. In giving Gold Awards to Cayuga Press and Akwe:kon Press for Native Americas and People of the Seventh Fire in the magazine and book categories, respectively, the Syracuse Gallery cited both publications' printing and design quality. The winners were chosen by a team of printing and design experts, according to such criteria as registration, ink coverage, design and typography, difficulty of printing and overall appearance. native.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- An exhibition drawn from one of the largest collections of George Bernard Shaw materials opens April 17 in the Exhibition Gallery of Cornell University's Carl A. Kroch Library. "The Instinct of an Artist: Shaw and the Theatre," on display through June 13, includes theater programs, production photographs, letters to actors and even the original manuscript draft of the play Getting Married, all from the Shaw collection of Bernard F. Burgunder, Cornell class of 1918. The exhibit is presented by Cornell Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections and curated by Ann Ferguson, the Bernard F. Burgunder Curator for George Bernard Shaw and Theatre Arts Collections. Shaw.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Matthew Semino of Winthrop, Mass., a Cornell University junior majoring in human service studies in the College of Human Ecology, has been chosen as a national Truman Scholar. The award provides up to $30,000 for further education and the opportunity to participate in leadership development programs. The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation was established by Congress in 1975 as the official federal memorial to honor the 33rd president. The foundation provides up to 85 of these prestigious and highly competitive merit-based scholarships for juniors with outstanding leadership potential. Undergraduate institutions may submit up to three nominees, and only two scholars are chosen from each state. trumanscholar.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Martha Farnsworth Riche, director of the U.S. Census Bureau and a former Ithaca resident, will give a public lecture at Cornell University on Monday, April 21, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall. Her lecture is titled "What Demographic Data Tell Us About the American Family: Its Present and Future" and is presented as part of the Family Values Lecture Series of the Cornell Women's Studies Program. riche.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Kwame Ture, who as Stokely Carmichael was a leading spokesman for the Black Power Movement of the 1960s, will give a lecture at Cornell University on Saturday, April 19, at 2 p.m. in Robert Purcell Union. His lecture, "28 Years After the Takeover: Developing a National Black Student Agenda," is free and open to the public. Ture's talk will commemorate the occupation of Cornell's student union, Willard Straight Hall, for 36 hours on April 19, 1969, by approximately 100 African American students. The takeover followed months of unrest over issues concerning minority education and race relations on campus and seized the nation's attention, becoming for many people an enduring symbol of black student activism. stokely.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- On Saturday, April 19, from 1 to 6 p.m. on the Cornell University Arts Quad, more than 50 student groups will take part in a celebration of Earth and culture for Earth Day '97. This year's celebration combines the traditional Earth Day elements with an emphasis on cultural diversity and has been named "Many Voices, One Earth." Earthday.ke.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Two Cornell University faculty members have been chosen as 1997 Guggenheim Fellows, the Guggenheim Foundation has announced. They are Persis S. Drell, associate professor of physics, and Terence H. Irwin, the Susan Linn Sage Professor of Philosophy and Humane Letters and chair of the philosophy department. Drell and Irwin are among only 164 artists, scholars and scientists from 2,876 applicants for Guggenheim Fellowship awards this year. Guggenheims.lb.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Calvin W. Schwabe, a world-renowned expert in the relationships of veterinary medicine and human health, will speak on "Meeting Development Needs of Pastoral Peoples" on Thursday, April 24, at 4 p.m. in Lecture Hall I of the Veterinary Education Center at Cornell University. A second lecture by Schwabe, who is the 1996-97 George C. Poppensiek Visiting Professor of International Veterinary Medicine at Cornell, is set for Friday, April 25, at noon in Lecture Hall I on the topic, "Bull Sacrifice: The Beginnings of Comparative Medicine in Egypt." poppensiek.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Richard Rominger, deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will tour Cornell University on Friday afternoon, present the keynote address at the Northeast Regional Alpha Zeta Conference on campus on Friday evening, then visit Cornell's Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, N.Y., on Saturday. Celebrating its centennial this year, Alpha Zeta is the national honorary fraternity for agriculture. One of 67 chapters nationwide and one of only two house chapters, which also operates as a social fraternity, Cornell's Alpha Zeta members are active in community service, 4-H activities and promoting agriculture throughout the campus. The chapter is the host for Rominger's visit. RomingerVisit.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Antonio Mercader, Uruguay's ambassador to the Organization of American States, will give a lecture at Cornell University on Monday, April 28, at 4:30 p.m. in Room G-08 Uris Hall. The free and public lecture is titled "El Futuro de la Democracia en America Latina" and will be given in Spanish with English translation. uruguay.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Donald F. Smith, professor of surgery and acting dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell University, has been nominated to be dean of the college. The nomination, which would make Smith the ninth dean in the 103-year history of the veterinary college, is subject to approval by the Cornell University Board of Trustees. vetdean.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- A recent Cornell graduate and a current junior, both from the College of Arts and Sciences, have just received major national awards: the Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies and the Beinecke Brothers Memorial Scholarship. James Kessler '96, a former College Scholar and Near Eastern studies major from Auburn, Ind., is one of 85 college seniors or recent graduates from nearly 800 applicants who will receive a 1997 Mellon Fellowship for a year of graduate study, which includes a stipend of $13,750 plus tuition and mandated fees. Daniel Louis Klein '98, also a College Scholar, from Pittsburgh, has received a 1997 Beinecke Scholarship for superior academic achievement and personal promise. The award includes $2,000 upon completion of undergraduate studies and $15,000 for each of two years in graduate school. Awards.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Vera Bauer Palmer from Niagara Falls, N.Y., a Cornell University graduate student in the Department of English, has received a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for Minorities. Bauer. Palmer is a member of the Tuscarora Nation of the Six Nations Iroquois, Grand River Band, and is in her second year of doctoral study. Designed to increase minority presence in the arts and sciences on college and university faculties, the fellowships provide $14,000 per year over three years to members of racial and ethnic minorities, with an additional $6,000 provided by the student's university for tuition. Applicants must be college seniors, first-year graduate students or individuals at or near the beginning of their graduate studies. FordFellow.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- David A. Hollinger, a professor of history at the University of California at Berkeley, will give a lecture titled "The Will to Descend: Culture, Color and Genealogy" at Cornell University on Monday, April 28, at 4:30 p.m. in the Bethe Room, 700 Clark Hall. The lecture, which is free and open to the public, will focus on current debates over the relation of culture to ethnoracial classifications and is presented as the 1996--97 Nordlander Lecture in Science and Public Policy, sponsored by Cornell's Department of Science and Technology Studies. hollinger.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Peter Galbraith, the U.S. ambassador to Croatia, will discuss the successes and failures of the negotiated peace in the former Yugoslavia in a keynote address during "Making Peace Agreements Work," a two-day symposium beginning Friday, April 25, at the Cornell University Law School. The symposium, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Cornell International Law Journal. All sessions take place in the MacDonald Moot Court Room of Myron Taylor Hall. peaceprocess.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Shimon Peres lecture at Cornell University, scheduled for April 30, has been canceled. The Cornell University Program Board, sponsor of the event, has been informed by Peres' speaking agency that the cancellation is due to political developments in Israel; a meeting of Peres' Labor Party has been scheduled in Israel for April 30. Perescancellation.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University's alumni body recently elected Judith C. Areen and Samuel C. Fleming to four-year terms on the Cornell Board of Trustees. They succeed Eleanor S. Applewhaite and J. Thomas Clark on the board effective July 1. Applewhaite and Clark are completing four-year terms as alumni elected trustees. alumni.trustees.jkp.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- New York state voters are increasingly frustrated by gridlock in the two houses of the state legislature, an impasse that results in delayed legislation, late budgets and a seemingly never-ending refrain of raucous debate and recrimination. Is it time to change the whole system? Two new books address issues related to the New York State referendum in November 1997 over whether a constitutional convention should be called. Published by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government, they are: Decision 1997: Constitutional Change in New York, edited by Gerald Benjamin and Henrik N. Dullea, and Charter Revision in the Empire State: The Politics of New York's 1967 Constitutional Convention, written by Henrik N. Dullea. constitutionbooks.lgk.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The annual Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony at Cornell University will be awarded for the third time at a ceremony on campus Monday, April 28, at 3 p.m. at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Orpheus M. Williams, a senior in human ecology and co-leader of Peer Educators in Human Relations (PEHR), will receive this year's $5,000 award. perkinsprize97.sfm.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- How can Cornell students build bridges with the Ithaca community? Find steel beams, wooden decks and hand-railings, then assemble them with good, old-fashioned elbow grease. The Cornell Student Chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers this weekend will finish construction on a pedestrian/bicycle bridge over Cascadilla Creek to link the Ithaca Sciencenter and the Tompkins County Cornell Cooperative Extension office, adjacent to Route 13. It has been an on-going student project for the past two years. BridgeAdvisory.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Nobel Prize-winning physicist Pierre-Gilles de Gennes will speak on "Novel Schemes for Artificial Muscle" when he delivers a Gemant Lecture on Monday, May 5, at 3:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall, at Cornell University. The lecture, which is sponsored by the Department of Physics, is free and open to the public. The director of the College of Industrial Physics and Chemistry in Paris and professor of solid state physics at the University of Paris, de Gennes is best known for his studies of liquid crystals and polymers, an achievement for which he was honored with the 1991 Nobel Prize for physics. deGennes.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- An "education vacation" in the islands -- the Gulf of Maine's Isles of Shoals, in particular -- is offered to adults taking non-credit courses this summer at Shoals Marine Laboratory. Weekend and five-day courses are scheduled on Appledore Island by Cornell University and the University of New Hampshire, which jointly operate Shoals Marine Laboratory. Topics range from natural history and island gardens to pastel and watercolor painting. shoals.adult.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Before they leave campus in May, Cornell University students are expected to donate about 15,000 items of clothing to several local community agencies. clothing97.doc.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- An interdisciplinary, regional conference entirely organized and conducted by Cornell University graduate students will be held on the Cornell campus May 7--9 in Room 401 Warren Hall. The Second Annual Great Lakes Graduate Conference in Political Economy has the theme of "Structures, Processes, Identities and Rights: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Political Economy." Free and open to the public, the conference is sponsored by the International Political Economy Program (IPE) of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. All of the conference's 24 papers were written and will be presented by graduate students from Cornell, Binghamton University and seven Canadian universities, with faculty from the participating institutions acting as panel chairs and discussants. IPEconference.jkg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Charles J. Whalen, senior economist with the Institute of Industry Studies at Cornell University, is scheduled to testify before the U.S. Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs on Wednesday, April 23 in Washington, D.C., in support of establishing a two-year budget and appropriations cycle for the U.S. government. Whalen has written extensively on U.S. economic trends and public policy, with special attention to federal budget issues. He testified before the U.S. House of Representatives in 1995 on the proposed balanced-budget amendment to the U.S. Constitution. He is the author of "Political Economy for the 21st Century "(M.E. Sharpe, 1996). whalen.dg.html