The following events will take place this week, Sept 8-15.

A conversation with Cornell interim President Hunter R. Rawlings is available for viewing online at CyberTower, http://www.cybertower.cornell.edu. Rawlings' 42-minute talk with CyberTower Forum host Glenn Altschuler touches on topics including news in the life sciences and humanities programs, plans for new campus buildings, recent international initiatives in China and elsewhere, and Cornell's on-campus student population.

The inventor of the music synthesizer will be honored at "Commemoration to Robert Moog," Tuesday, Sept. 13, at noon in 701 Clark Hall. The event, planned prior to Cornell alumnus Moog's death on Aug. 21, will feature Don Preston, keyboardist for Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention; Trevor Pinch, science and technology studies, and David Borden, former director of Cornell's Digital Music Program. The event is free and open to the public. For more information on Moog, visit http://moogarchives.com/trumans.htm.

The March for Women's Lives, a rally of more than 1 million people held in Washington, D.C., last April, is the subject of "Our Bodies, Our Choice!" -- part of a free program of video documentary shorts screening Sept. 13 at 7 p.m. in Goldwin Smith Hall's Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium. Other films are "Star-Spangled, A Flagumentary," with diverse opinions of the American flag; "Ni Una Mas," about a human rights protest at the U.S. border at El Paso; and "Red Wings," a work in progress filmed locally outside a Collegetown tavern, where young men are interviewed about their girlfriends. The program is sponsored by Cornell for Peace and Justice. For more information, http://www.pmsmedia.org.

Pianist Xak Bjerken will perform in a faculty recital Sept. 9 at 8 p.m. in Barnes Hall. Bjerken will play a four-hand piano set with Emily Goldman, an undergraduate pianist/composer, combining works by Gyorgy Kurtag and J.S. Bach. The recital, also featuring works by Brahms, Lutoslawski and Thomas Ades, is free and open to the public. For more information about Department of Music events, see http://www.arts.cornell.edu/music.

Cornell Cinema premieres the Indian film "Paheli," a colorful Bollywood ghost story full of music, drama and passion, on Friday, Sept. 9 at 7 p.m. Also this week: "Jump Cut" by visiting filmmaker Monika Treut, "Batman Begins," Francois Truffaut's "Jules and Jim" and a program of new Oscar-nominated short films. For more information, call (607) 255-3522 or see http://cinema.cornell.edu or http://www.pahelithefilm.com.

Biomedical research scientist Philip Anfinrud of the National Institutes of Health will give two lectures on the inner workings of proteins, Sept. 13 and 15 at 4:30 p.m. in Baker Laboratory. Anfinrud is a guest speaker in the CHESS Next Frontier Applications in Synchrotron Radiation lecture series. For details, visit http://meetings.chess.cornell.edu/Lectures/.