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ITHACA, N.Y. -- As never before, girls are maturing earlier and have become so preoccupied with their bodies that they spend much of their energy managing and maintaining their looks at the expense of their creativity and mental and physical health, says a new book by an award-winning Cornell University historian. "Girls today make the body into an all-consuming project in ways young women of the past did not," said Joan Jacobs Brumberg, professor of human development and of women's studies at Cornell and author of the new book, The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls (Random House, 1997). brumbergbook.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Complex computing problems as different as modeling Earth's climate system, predicting effects of regulatory change in the dairy industry or serving a semester's worth of lecture videos to student dormitories will operate on a scalable distributed network of powerful desktop computers, thanks in part to a $6 million grant from Intel Corp. to Cornell University. The grant from the Santa Clara, Calif., computing equipment manufacturer is one of 12 to American universities in Intel's three-year, $85 million "Technology for Education 2000" program to support research and curriculum development in computationally demanding fields. intelgrant.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Plant scientists from Cornell University and the University of Tasmania, Australia, have successfully cloned one of history's first-studied genes -- the gene for stem growth in peas, according to a report in the latest issue of journal The Plant Cell, which was published today. Cloning the gene gives scientists a new way to account for why some plants are tall and some are short. PeaGene.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Twenty years ago, when the Public Utility Regulatory Policy Act (PURPA) was written and large central-station steam-turbine facilities were the best way to generate electricity, no one expected the technological development of the small-scale, super-efficient, combined-cycle gas turbines that independent power producers and many utilities use today. Now that deregulation is increasing competition in the power generation part of the electric utility industry and is beginning to offer consumers a choice through their local distribution companies, innovation lightning could strike again, a Cornell University economist and engineer predicts. New technologies, new materials and a renewed notion of public service, according to Richard E. Schuler, could give consumers "corner store access" to competitive electricity, communications, entertainment and information services -- all in one super cable. utilityinnovation.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Proving that even minor planets can survive cosmic fender-benders, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered a large crater -- with an estimated diameter of 285 miles and about 8 miles deep -- on the asteroid Vesta, according to an article published in today's issue of the journal Science (Sept. 5). Vesta.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The best place to go eye-to-eye with a dark-eyed junco -- or to be eaten out of house and home by a hungry house finch while becoming comfortable with a downy Woodpecker -- could be your backyard, kitchen window or balcony bird feeder. Statisticians at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, where the world's largest citizen science program, Project FeederWatch, is based, have just released the 1997 Top 10 List of Feeder Birds. The annual list is used by professional ornithologists to track trends in bird populations. Just as interested are the more than 11,000 registered FeederWatchers and thousands of other backyard "birders" who compare their findings with others' across North America. Top10Birds.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- How scientific research on the causes of breast cancer influences public policy locally and globally as well as right-to-know issues about diet, pesticides and breast cancer risk will be major topics of discussion when Cornell University's Institute for Comparative and Environmental Toxicology (ICET) convenes a two-day symposium, Sept. 29-30, on "The Science that Drives Policy: Pesticides, Diet and Breast Cancer Risk." Beginning at 8 a.m. Monday, Sept. 29, at the Triphammer Lodge and Conference Center in Ithaca, symposium speakers from universities, research institutes and government agencies will discuss how federal agencies test whether a pesticide may cause cancer, who monitors the maximum levels of pesticide residues allowed in our food supply, consumer right-to-know issues on pesticide residues, testing pesticides for hormone-like action, whether pesticides and other environmental chemicals affect breast cancer risk, foods that may reduce the risk of breast cancer and what women can do now to reduce their risk of breast cancer. ICETsymp.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- When preschool children were asked weekly about whether a fictitious event had ever happened to them, more than half the 3- and 4-year-old children by the tenth week reported that it had and provided cogent details, according to a Cornell University study. Even more surprising, however, is that more than one-quarter of the children could not be convinced the event never occurred when the researchers and their parents explained that the events never occurred. Furthermore, professionals who specialize in interviewing children could not distinguish between children telling false or true accounts when they were shown videotapes of the children's "recollections." kids.memories.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Several precipitation records belonging to Atlantic City, N.J., were flooded out of the history books in August, while many parts of the Northeast region remained dry, according to the climatologists at the Northeast Regional Climate Center (NRCC) at Cornell University. The Atlantic City rain event of August 20-21 deluged the area with 13.52 inches. Atlantic City's daily precipitation total of 11.2 inches on Aug. 20 more than surpassed their all-time daily rainfall record of 6.46 inches set on July 10, 1949. NRCC.August97.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Attention teachers far and wide: It may not be so much what or how you teach that will reap high student evaluations, but something as simple as an enthusiastic tone of voice.And beware, administrators, if you use student ratings to judge teachers: Although student evaluations may be systematic and reliable, a Cornell University study has found that they can be totally invalid. Yet many schools use them to determine tenure, promotion, pay hikes and awards. These warnings stem from a new study in which a Cornell professor taught the identical course twice with one exception -- he used a more enthusiastic tone of voice the second semester -- and student ratings soared on every measure that second semester. student.eval.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- They go from bugs to drugs. Thanks to the confluence of a new technology in virology and a recent patent in rearing insects, scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc. (BTI), located at Cornell University, have found a better way to produce commercial quantities of recombinant pharmaceutical proteins -- out of insect larvae. "These are valuable proteins, and they can't be produced this well any other way," said H. Alan Wood, a virologist at BTI. "Essentially, this is a protein factory. We are using insects to raise raw pharmaceutical proteins. In effect, we are turning insects into little protein factories." BugPharm.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Nursing staff and family members of residents in nursing homes often distrust and misunderstand each other, feel powerless to improve communication and feel distressed by the situation, according to a Cornell University study. "Yet, the better the communication and interaction are between nursing staff and relatives of residents, the better off the nursing home residents will fare," said Karl Pillemer, associate professor of human development at Cornell and co-director of the Cornell Applied Gerontology Research Institute. family.nursing.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Historically, home economics has been dismissed as a conspiracy to keep women in the kitchen, says a new book that takes a fresh look at home economics and how race, class, gender, politics and professionalism have influenced women's options and home economics historically. "Home economics constitutes a classic case of the interplay of politics and domesticity in women's history," writes Sarah Stage, professor and chair of women's studies at Arizona State University-West, who co-edited the book Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession (Cornell University Press, 1997) with Virginia B. Vincenti, professor of family and consumer sciences at the University of Wyoming. homeeco.book.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cigarette smoking is a form of child abuse, says one of the nation's leading child abuse experts, and it's high time we recognize it as such. "More young children are killed by parental smoking than by all unintentional injuries combined," says James Garbarino, an internationally recognized expert on child protection and the director of Cornell University's Family Life Development Center. These deaths include almost 3,000 annually due to low birth weight, 2,000 due to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and another 1,300 attributed to respiratory infection, asthma and burns, according to researchers in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (July 1997 edition). smoking.abuse.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- When African women work outside the home, their families reap more income but often with potentially "deleterious consequences on the health of their very young children," according to new Cornell University research. Although the extra money women earn apparently raises household food consumption more than extra earnings from men do, the diminished quantity or quality of child care may have serious adverse consequences for the health of preschool age children. women.africa.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University Assistant Professor of Physics Daniel C. Ralph has been named the winner of the University of Illinois' 1997 William L. McMillan Award for "fundamental contributions to the development and application of experimental techniques for studying nanoscale structures." Ralph is scheduled to receive the award and deliver the McMillan Lecture on Nov. 6 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on the topic, "Interacting Electrons in a Box: Measurements of Electronic Energy Levels Inside Single Metal Particles." mcmillan_ralph.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Nine months ago, New York City and the upstate New York towns in the New York City watershed formally settled their differences over environmental restrictions in the watershed region, but close to a third of the upstate residents don't know about the agreement, according to Cornell University rural sociologists. A Cornell survey of 571 households conducted in June in 14 communities around New York City's upstate reservoirs found that 29 percent of the residents had not yet heard of the agreement signed on Jan. 21 of this year, said J. Mayone Stycos, Cornell professor of rural sociology. Watershed.bpf.html

ITHACA, NY -- When Ithaca High School's 1997 football season opens Sept. 6, the team will be playing on East Hill instead of on the flats. Home games for the Little Red of Ithaca High this fall will be at Cornell's Schoellkopf Field, where the Big Red play. While IHS Coach Frank Fazio's team is ready for the season, the high-school field is not. Bredbenner Field is in the midst of major surgery to improve drainage and replace an aging natural turf. The project was started June 23, said Bill Bryant, IHS athletic director, but new sod will not be placed on the field until the week of Sept. 15. IHS.football.field.ds.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- "I don't want to be confused with being the author of a cookbook," said Cornell Professor Steven L. Kaplan, who travels to Italy Sept. 6 to accept the Langhe Ceretto Prize, an international award that honors outstanding culinary writing. Kaplan, the Goldwin Smith Professor of European History, is being honored for "The Bakers of Paris and the Bread Question 1700-1775" (Duke University Press, 1996), a 750-page examination of the power and symbolism of bread in 18th-century France. The book earlier received the Gottschalk Prize from the American Society of 18th Century Studies. Kaplan.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- For 21 years, Cornell's Information and Referral Center (IRC) has answered questions as varied as "What's the elevation of Cornell?" and "How do I get a new ID card?" to "When is graduation in 2001?" On Sept. 8, the IRC will officially add Cornell directory assistance to its mission, providing student, staff, faculty and departmental telephone numbers to thousands of callers each day. The integration of the IRC and directory assistance will eventually result in increased hours of operation for the Information and Referral Center and the availability of directory assistance on Saturdays. These changes are essential to serve the significant number of contacts from people in other time zones, including parents, prospective students and alumni. Call_Center.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Harold Gould and Lea Shampanier Gould, Cornell University graduates and distinguished stage, television and film actors, will star as Willy and Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman, to be presented Sept. 18-20 and 25-27 in the Proscenium Theatre of the Center for Theatre Arts (CTA) at Cornell. "Their presence will benefit and delight student actors and Ithaca audiences alike," says CTA Artistic Director David Feldshuh, who will direct the Goulds in the Arthur Miller classic. cta_opener.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Karlton E. Hester and Roberto Sierra, members of the Cornell music faculty, have been selected as American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Award recipients. ASCAP, based in New York City, represents 35,000 members in numerous countries and distributes royalties to its writer-members. It presents awards annually to artists who have demonstrated exceptional work in the past year. The awards, granted by an independent panel, are based upon the unique prestige value of each writer's catalog of original compositions. The amount of the cash award was not announced. ascap_awards.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Five members of the Cornell University community have started not only a new academic year, but new community service responsibilities as residential "bunkers" with the Ithaca Fire Department (IFD), responding to fires and other emergencies in the city and town of Ithaca. After successfully completing an intensive, two-week basic-training program in August, three students and two employees are now providing emergency service duty as IFD bunkers, joining nine others from Cornell who are veteran bunkers. Under contract with the city of Ithaca, bunkers commit to providing approximately 100 hours of emergency response service each month, according to an established duty schedule. They provide support for the department's career staff, and they earn housing without charge in an Ithaca Fire Department station in exchange for their service. Bunker_program.sfm.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Corn in all its forms will be celebrated Sunday, Sept. 28, from 1 to 4 p.m. when Cornell Plantations stages the first Judy's Day with educational and fun-filled activities for kids and their families. The festival, "Corn, the A-Maize-ing Grain," is open to the public free of charge, rain or shine. Activities are planned for Emerson Garden, the historically named "Corn Hollow" area near Plantations headquarters where Barbara McClintock's Nobel Prize-winning research was conducted and where teaching about corn continues today. cornfest.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Internationally known novelist Don DeLillo, who rarely makes public appearances, will read from his work Sept. 26 at 7:30 p.m. in Cornell University's David L. Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, as part of the Epoch Festival, a series of readings in celebration of Epoch magazine's 50th anniversary. DeLillo's new novel, Underworld, will be published by Scribner's on Sept. 22. DeLillo has won the National Book Award, the American Book Award and the PEN/Faulkner Award. His previous novels include White Noise, Libra and Mao II. His first published fiction appeared in Epoch 37 years ago. Delillo.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The critically acclaimed TV movie adaptation of Cornell University Professor David Feldshuh's 1992 Pulitzer-nominated play Miss Evers' Boys has been nominated for a dozen Emmy Awards by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Winners will be announced Sunday, Sept. 14, in Los Angeles during a ceremony to be broadcast on CBS. Miss Evers' Boys, which premiered on HBO in February, stars Lawrence Fishburne and Alfre Woodard in the title role. The movie was produced by HBO NYC in association with Anasazi Productions. emmy.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell University Board of Trustees Executive Committee will meet in New York City on Thursday, Sept. 11. The meeting will be held in the Fall Creek Room of the Cornell Club of New York, 6 E. 44th St., at 2 p.m. exec.comm.9.97.jkp.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Roll up your sleeves. The United Way of Tompkins County is kicking off its 1997 campaign Sept. 17 with a "Day of Caring," which could become a new tradition. Instead of hoopla about campaign goals, which are still important, volunteers are needed to paint rooms, wash windows and clean yards for United Way agencies. United.Way.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Edwin E. Salpeter, the James Gilbert White Distinguished Professor in the Physical Sciences emeritus at Cornell University and winner of the 1997 Crafoord Prize in Astrophysics, will deliver a physics colloquium on "Astrophysics in the 1950s and Advice to Young Players" on Monday, Sept. 15, at 4:30 in Schwartz Auditorium , Rockefeller Hall, at Cornell. Salpeter and British physicist Fred Hoyle will be awarded the $500,000 Crafoord Prize at a ceremony in Sweden later this month. The prize citation reads: "for their pioneering contributions to the study of nuclear processes in stars and stellar evolution." salpeterlect.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Twenty-five scholars from the Caribbean, South America and Africa will examine the status of black studies programs abroad at a conference presented by the Africana Studies and Research Center at Cornell University, Sept. 19 and 20. The conference, "Africana Studies in Africa and the Diaspora," will be a reunion of sorts for these scholars who, since 1991, have each served a term as a visiting scholar at the Africana Studies and Research Center. Through a grant from the Ford Foundation, scholars from abroad were able to spent up to two weeks on the Cornell campus, studying at the center. africana.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Jane Goodall, one of the world's best known scientists, will return to Cornell University this fall as an Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large, joining four other noted scholars -- Roger Chartier, Seyyed Nasr, George L. Mosse, Anthony Seeger -- to deliver more than a dozen free, public lectures during the semester. at_large97.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell Plantations and other tree-friendly groups in Tompkins County are gearing up for the third annual Big Tree Search, a contest that aims for year-round tree appreciation. Nov. 15, 1997, is the deadline for the nomination of trees that may be the largest of their species in Tompkins County. bigtree.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Theodore J. Lowi, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at Cornell University, has been elected president of the International Political Science Association (IPSA). Lowi, who has taught at Cornell since 1972, was elected to a three-year term as president at the IPSA's triennial meeting in Seoul, Korea, Aug. 22. The Cornell professor becomes IPSA's first American-born president and the first to have served as president of the American Political Science Association since 1954. lowi_notable.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Kate Bronfenbrenner, director of education research at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, is scheduled to participate in a Congressional Teach-In Thursday, Sept. 11, from 1 to 3 p.m. in the Caucus Room of the Cannon House Office in Washington, D.C. The topic of the teach-in, called by U.S. Reps. Richard Gephardt (D-Mo.) and David Bonior (D-Mich.) is the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). nafta.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Faculty at New York's leading research universities brought $1.2 billion in federal research grants into the state in 1996, which resulted in support for an estimated 42,444 full- and part-time jobs statewide, according to a survey from Cornell University. New York is third in the country (behind California and Texas) in attracting federal research dollars, which now account for more job creation than several big industries that were major employers in previous decades, among them producers of paper, textiles, chemicals and plastics. NYS_research_funding.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University's skyline will boast another tower when Olive Tjaden Hall, located on Cornell's Arts Quad, has its steeple restored as part of the building's $7.5 million renovation project. The 30-foot, 20-ton steeple currently is being built on the ground adjacent to Tjaden Hall. Its steel skeleton has been covered with plywood and workers are now laying slate shingles on the structure's roof. steeple_advisory.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Carlos Castillo-Chavez, a Cornell University professor whose efforts to increase the numbers of minorities and women in science and mathematics have received national recognition, was awarded a 1997 Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring at a White House ceremony on Sept. 11. Castillo-Chavez, professor of biomathematics and chair of the Biometrics Unit at Cornell, is among 19 individuals and institutions to win this honor in the second year of the program, which is an outgrowth of the Clinton administration's science policy blueprint, Science in the National Interest. That plan, issued in 1994, addressed two goals: to produce the best trained scientists and engineers for the 21st century and to enhance scientific and technological literacy of all Americans. Castillo-Chavez_honor.lgk.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- During halftime of Cornell University's home football game with Princeton University on Saturday, Sept. 20, at Schoellkopf Field, there will be a ceremony honoring a Cornell and American football coaching legend -- Glenn Scobey "Pop" Warner. This past July -- 43 years after his death -- the U.S. Postal Service issued a Pop Warner commemorative stamp, along with stamps honoring fellow coaching legends Paul "Bear" Bryant, Vince Lombardi and George Halas. Pop.Warner.sfm.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Cornell University Council for the Arts (CCA) has awarded more than $11,000 to 26 Cornell students and staff members to support a variety of art projects, including fashion design and photography. Mark C. Parsons, an M.F.A. candidate, is the first grant winner to present his project, "Rock, Paper, Scissors: Exercises in Decisionmaking," an exhibition of sculpture showing in the Hartell Gallery in Sibley Hall through Sept. 20. CCAgrants.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Effective leadership is critical to the success of most nonprofit organizations, which are faced with stagnant or shrinking budgets yet numerous demands on their resources. A program designed for agency professionals, board members and civic leaders will explore these issues on the Cornell University campus on Thursday, Sept. 25. Organized by Cornell's School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions, the half-day program, "The Nonprofit Leader of the Future: Social Sector Leadership in a Central New York Perspective" consists of a PBS video seminar followed by a panel discussion with local nonprofit leaders and analysts. nonprofitprogram.jw.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Richard Gaulton, a Cornell alumnus and scholar of Chinese politics, has been named director of Cornell Abroad. Gaulton succeeds Urbain DeWinter, who accepted a post this summer as international programs administrator at Boston University. As director, Gaulton will administer study abroad programs for more than 500 Cornell undergraduates annually; manage university and consortium programs in Nepal, France, Spain, Sweden, Japan and the United Kingdom; and advise and support Cornell students who participate in non-Cornell study-abroad programs. Cornell_abroad.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Raymond V. Gilmartin, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Merck & Co., will deliver the Hatfield Address on "America's Leadership in Pharmaceutical Research: How Can We Keep Winning?" on Sept. 25 at 4:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall on the Cornell University campus. Cornell President Hunter Rawlings will introduce Gilmartin. The lecture is free and open to the public. HatfieldLecture'97.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- William B. Lacy, director of Cornell Cooperative Extension, has been elected president of the Rural Sociological Society (RSS) for the 1998-99 academic year, the sixth time a Cornell professor has held the post. While Lacy holds rank as a Cornell professor of rural sociology, he also serves as an associate dean in the colleges of Agriculture and Life Sciences and of Human Ecology. He follows several Cornell rural sociology colleagues who have served as president of the RSS since 1938: Dwight Sanderson (1938-39), W.A. Anderson (1946-47), Robert Polson (1950-51), Olaf Larson (1956-58) and Harold Capener (1974-75). Lacy.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Oliver Stone, one of Hollywood's most controversial and celebrated filmmakers, will give an address on the Cornell campus Sept. 29 at 8 p.m. in Bailey Hall. His lecture is titled "Making Movies Matter." Tickets for Stone's lecture are on sale at the Willard Straight Hall ticket office. Tickets are $6 for Cornell students and $8 for all others. Stone will discuss his background and explain how and why he chooses to direct certain films, said Sue Heter '00, chair of the Cornell University Program Board, the sponsor of the event. Stone also will offer his opinions on the media and the role he believes the media should play in today's society. Oliver.Stone.cm.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Friends and colleagues of Dean L. Taylor will remember the late professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering in a memorial service on Monday, Sept. 22 at 4:30 p.m. in the chapel of Anabel Taylor Hall, Cornell University. Taylor, a faculty member in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering for more than 20 years, died unexpectedly at his home on July 31. He was 48. taylormem.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Kristin G. Esterberg, a Cornell alumna and author ofLesbian & Bisexual Identities: Constructing Communities, Constructing Selves, will speak Saturday, Sept. 27, at 4 p.m. in the Founder's Room of Anabel Taylor Hall at Cornell University. Earlier in the day, from 11a.m. to 1 p.m., Esterberg will sign copies of her book in the Campus Store. Esterberg's appearance, part of Cornell's Homecoming Weekend activities, is sponsored by the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Resource Office; Cornell University Gay and Lesbian Alumni/ae Association; the Lesbian, Bisexual and Gay Studies program; the departments of Sociology and of Anthropology; and the Ithaca Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual Task Force. esterberg.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Fran¨ois Bujon de l'Estang, the French ambassador to the United States, will visit the Cornell University campus Sept. 29 to give an address, visit with students, faculty and administrators and tour the campus. The ambassador's lecture, at 4:35 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall, is titled "France, Europe and Transatlantic Relations" and is free and open to the public. He will be introduced by Cornell President Hunter Rawlings. French.ambassador.cm.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- An annual rite of fall at colleges and universities across the country is Homecoming, the autumn weekend that sends hundreds of alumni in school colors back to their alma maters to renew acquaintances, cheer on sports teams and see what college is really like these days. Those opportunities and more await Cornell University alumni who return for Homecoming festivities Sept. 26-28. homecoming.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Thomas R. Donahue, former president of the AFL-CIO, will speak on "Problems of Labor in Contemporary Society" Monday, Sept. 29, at noon in Room 105 of the ILR Conference Center at Cornell University. The lecture is free and open to the public. Donahue will visit Cornell Sept. 29 to Oct. 1 as the 1997 Alice B. Grant Labor Leader in Residence. During his visit, he will speak to various classes in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). ILR.Donahue.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- An artist who brings an exhibit of art that depicts Jewish ritual garments -- tallit katans -- in a variety of materials, including marbleized silk, comics, dollar bills, stainless steel, Astroturf, woven wire, X-ray film and copper sheeting, will present a public lecture Oct. 7 at 4:30 p.m. in 317 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall on the Cornell University campus. jewish.art.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- A memorial service for Barclay G. Jones, Cornell University professor of city and regional planning and regional science, will be held Friday, Oct. 3, at 2 p.m. in Sage Chapel. Jones died May 26 at the age of 72. At Cornell since 1961, Jones directed the Institute for Social and Economic Research/Program in Urban and Regional Studies and initiated the Historic Preservation Planning program. He also served as chair of the Department of Policy Planning and Regional Analysis and director of the Center for Housing and Environmental Studies. jones_memorial.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Rex Nettleford, professor of continuing studies, head of the Trade Union Education Institute and deputy vice chancellor of the University of the West Indies, will present three lectures on the theme "Cultural Identity and Development: A Caribbean Perspective," as Cornell University's Fall 1997 Messenger Lecturer. Nettleford will speak on "Cultural Indices as Agencies of Marginalization," Sept. 29; "Cultural Strategies of De-Marginalization," Sept. 30; and "Implications for Development," Oct. 1. All lectures, which are free and open to the public, will begin at 4:30 p.m. in Kaufmann Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall. Nettleford.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- NASA astronaut Daniel T. Barry, a 1975 engineering graduate of Cornell University, will describe his experience aboard space shuttle flight STS-72 in a School of Electrical Engineering colloquium planned for Tuesday, Oct. 7, at 4:30 p.m. in 101 Phillips Hall on the Cornell campus. A reception and refreshments at 4 p.m. in the Phillips Hall Lounge will precede the colloquium, which is open to the public at no charge. The topic for Barry, whose shuttle flight lasted from Jan. 11-20, 1996, will be "An Electrical Engineer at Mach 25." astronaut.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Dr. T. Berry Brazelton, renowned pediatrician and early childhood expert, television host and author, will be on the Cornell University campus to deliver two presentations on Monday, Oct. 13, and Tuesday, Oct. 14. In the 7 p.m., Oct. 13 presentation, "Stresses and Supports for Families in the 90's, "which is geared for parents and care-givers and to be given in Bailey Hall, Brazelton -- host of the television program "What Every Baby Knows" and author of Families: Crisis and Caring, andTouchpoints -- will offer insights on the challenges facing today's families and the effects they have on children. He will discuss such stresses as divorce, two working parents, disappearance of the extended family, unclear cultural values, and inadequate substitute care when both parents work, and he will offer several solutions. In addition, he will outline the importance of parent-child attachment for developing healthy self-esteem in both parent and child. brazelton.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Two European video and digital art experts will deliver guest lectures on the Cornell University campus Oct. 2 and 3 in conjunction with the new Cornell Graduate Program in Film and Video Studies. In a unique collaboration with the Robert Flaherty Seminar at the Roy S. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College, pooled resources are bringing Muntadas and Anne-Marie Duguet to Ithaca. Muntadas is an internationally renowned conceptual artist from Spain, residing in New York City, who specializes in the dialogue among architecture, video and the media; Duguet is a leading international expert on video art, television and electronic and digital art. french.video.ssl.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Pet a lamb, milk a cow and see how animal scientists care for a variety of farm animals at the open house at Cornell University's Animal Science Teaching and Research Center in Dryden on Saturday, Oct. 4. This free open house will feature tours of the center from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 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 open house will show visitors how cows are milked and how sheep's wool can become your favorite sweater. Families can see a "double ten" milking center with electronic identification, milk meters and automatic take-offs. CowTour.97.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell University President Hunter Rawlings and Cornell alumnus Robert B. Hoffman '58 will join Cornell Outdoor Education in dedicating the new Hoffman Challenge Course on Mount Pleasant in the Town of Dryden, Friday, Sept. 26 at 4:30 p.m. The challenge course combines exercises set at ground level with others in the trees and on telephone poles. The course includes a 65-foot replica of the Cornell clock tower, complete with a "tree fort" platform, rappelling stations, a giant swing, a 400-foot zip line and other off-the-ground elements. These exercises are offset by team-building challenges on the ground that require accommodating 12 people on a 2-foot square or teams working with blindfolded partners to escape a complicated maze. outdoor.advisory.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Even as American universities are recognized as the best in the world in conducting research and educating new generations of scientists and scholars, they are under attack as never before, politically and economically, from both ends of the political spectrum and by just about every constituent group. What accounts for this contradiction? Will the pressures being exerted on institutions of higher education diminish their quality and turn America's national treasure into an endangered species? How can universities cope with the often conflicting needs and demands of students, faculties and the outside world? These questions are examined in The American University, published this year by Cornell University Press in honor of Frank H.T. Rhodes, Cornell president emeritus. The volume contains revisions of presentations by five current and emeritus university presidents, the director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) and others at a symposium convened as part of events marking Rhodes' retirement in May 1995. The symposium was sponsored by the dean of the faculty and the University Faculty Council of Representatives. A commentary by Rhodes is included in the book. Rhodes.book.lgk.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Extending university expertise in toxicology and risk-assessment to decision-makers, corporations and the general public as well as developing undergraduate-level education programs in environmental toxicology are among the priorities for the new director of Cornell University's Institute for Comparative and Environmental Toxicology (ICET), David B. Wilson. Wilson, a professor of biochemistry, molecular and cell biology, became director of the program in Cornell's Center for the Environment on Sept. 1, replacing Rodney R. Dietert, director since 1992. Dietert continues as one of the 40 faculty members of ICET and as a professor of immunogenetics in the College of Veterinary Medicine. ICETdirector.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Cornell Cooperative Extension will present Daniel R. Wegman, president of Wegmans Food Markets Inc. of Rochester with the 1997 Friend of Extension Award at a celebratory continental breakfast Oct. 2 at the Strong Museum, 1 Manhattan Square, Rochester, at 7:30 a.m. William B. Lacy, director of Cornell Cooperative Extension, will make the presentation. Colleen Wegman will accept the award on behalf of her father. Wegman was selected to receive this award for his effort to extend the mission of Cornell Cooperative Extension by providing a market for locally grown produce and encouraging Cornell Integrated Pest Management practices, educating consumers about the value of fruits and vegetables in their diet, promoting cultural understanding through varied ethnic food, investing in youth by providing opportunities for the workforce of the future and promoting healthy lifestyles. Wegman.bpf.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- The Honorable Haris Silajdzic, co-prime minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, will be the 1997 Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellow at Cornell University Oct. 16 and 17. Silajdzic will present the Bartels Fellowship Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 16, at 4 p.m. in the Alice Statler Auditorium, Statler Hall. Bartels.adv.97.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Vicki Goldberg, the photography critic for The New York Times, will deliver the Georges Lurcy Lecture Saturday, Oct. 4, at 3 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall at Cornell University. Goldberg will speak on "Photography Storms the Gates of Art," a presentation on the rise of photography to the level of an art form, as evidenced by its inclusion in museum collections. goldberg.dg.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Just when the world's getting really confusing and you're not feeling good about yourself, when it seems nobody will listen -- or even sit when you tell them to -- along come the Cornell Companions for another session of animal-assisted therapy. Based in the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine and run by veterinary students, the Cornell Companions program brings well-trained dogs to facilities for kids who are developmentally disabled, including the Special Children's Center and BOCES (Board of Cooperative Education Services) in Ithaca, for hands-on, hugs-all-around visits. pet_therapy.hrs.html

ITHACA, N.Y. -- Putting aside political and religious differences, individuals from Ireland and Northern Ireland are working together to create a more tolerant society for people with disabilities. Nurturing this cooperative effort is Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations' Extension Division, which through its Program on Employment and Disability has developed a training program to assist 15 advocates in addressing equal employment opportunities for people with disabilities. Disabled.dg.html

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