Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno will deliver a public lecture titled "Impact of the Presidential Election on Violence Against Women in the United States," on Nov. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Bache Auditorium of Malott Hall on the Cornell University campus. A Cornell Class of 1960 graduate and a Frank H. T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor, Reno will visit campus Nov. 6 to Nov. 8 and is the featured participant in the Cornell Advocates for Rape Education (CARE) symposium, part of a year-long series.

Established in 1984, CARE is a university-wide committee comprised of students, staff and faculty dedicated to providing a campus community free of sexual harassment, exploitation, abuse, assault and violence. For information about the symposium and Reno's role in it, contact Andrea Parrot, professor of policy analysis and management and founder of CARE at (607) 255-2512 or e-mail ap30@cornell.edu .

Reno, who graduated Cornell with a degree in chemistry, was the nation's first female U.S. attorney general. She served in that capacity for almost eight years during the Clinton administration, the longest term served as attorney general since before the Civil War. In 2001, Reno returned to Cornell to deliver the senior convocation speech during commencement activities and was appointed to the Rhodes professorship.

Rhodes professors appointed since the program began in 2000 include: architect Richard Meier, a 1956 Cornell alumnus; biomedical scientist Edward M. Scolnick, president of Merck Research Laboratories; and television personality and science educator Bill Nye, a 1977 Cornell alumnus.