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Cancer research summit

Researchers with complementary expertise and common interests in cancer biology from Cornell's life science, physical science and medical (veterinary and human) communities will come together at the Cornell Translational Cancer Research Symposium, Oct. 1, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. in the Biotechnology Building. The event is free and open to the public.

The symposium includes a keynote address by Dr. David Piwnica-Worms of Washington University, sessions on imaging and diagnostics and molecular mechanisms and therapeutics, research presentations by faculty from each of the participating programs, and a poster session.

The event is organized by the Cornell Center on the Microenvironment and Metastasis, the College of Veterinary Medicine's Comparative Cancer Biology Training Program, Weill Cornell Medical College and the Methodist Cancer Center of Houston.

Register online.

Garden and gallery talks

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art will highlight some of its latest features this week in a pair of free events. The new Morgan Japanese Garden (adjacent to the museum's new wing, opening Oct. 15) is the subject of a presentation Oct. 6 at 5:15 p.m.

An-yi Pan, associate professor of the history of art; Ellen Avril, curator of Asian art and the museum's chief curator; and landscape designer Marc Peter Keane '79 will offer their perspectives on the garden, which re-creates the story depicted on "The Three Laughers of Tiger Glen," a 17th-century scroll in the museum's collection.

Avril will lead an hour-long Art for Lunch tour of the recently renovated fifth-floor galleries of Asian art, Oct. 6 at noon. The galleries can now display more than 400 objects, in groupings dedicated to Japanese, Chinese, ancient Near Eastern and Central Asian, Korean, Indian, Southeast Asian, West Asian, and Tibetan and Nepalese artworks.

Gas drilling roundtable

Cornell professors of earth and atmospheric sciences will shed light on the complicated issues surrounding natural gas drilling, Oct. 3, 7:30 p.m. in 155 Olin Hall.

Richard Allmendinger will present "Our Addiction to Fossil Fuels," and Charles H. Greene will lead a community roundtable discussion on hydrofracking and development of the Marcellus Shale. The event will provide the public with useful information about hydrofracking, the controversial drilling method being used to extract natural gas from areas of Pennsylvania, New York and other northeastern states over the Marcellus Shale formation.

"Just saying no to hydrofracking is not enough to solve the problems we face," Greene said. "It is essential to engage an informed public in finding more holistic, fossil-fuel free solutions to our [local and global] energy and environmental problems."

Pickling and science

Randy Worobo from the Department of Food Sciences offers an educational look at the science behind pickling at a Science Cabaret, Oct. 4 at 7 p.m. at Delilah's, 112 S. Cayuga St., Ithaca.

The free event also features Linda Norris of The Pickle Project, discussing Ukrainian food traditions and the lessons we can learn about food and sustainability in a changing world.

Artist in action

Cornell Cinema presents the Ithaca premiere of "Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow," director Sophie Fiennes' portrait of German artist Anselm Kiefer, Oct. 5 and 6 at 7:15 p.m. in Willard Straight Theatre, and Oct. 7 at 9:15 p.m. at Cinemapolis in downtown Ithaca.

Filmed in Cinemascope, Fiennes' documentary explores Kiefer's alchemical creative process, the materials he used and the site-specific architectural installation he created as galleries for his paintings and sculptures. The film features intimate footage of the artist at work at La Ribaute, his now-abandoned studio estate in a converted silk factory in the south of France, in his last days at the site before his move to Paris.

Cornell Cinema is showing art documentaries this fall in collaboration with Ithaca's monthly First Friday Gallery Night. Regular ticket prices apply on campus; tickets for the Friday Cinemapolis screening are $7. More art documentaries will be shown on upcoming Gallery Nights, Nov. 4 and Dec. 2, as well as on campus. The series is co-sponsored with the Department of Art, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art and Downtown Ithaca Alliance.

Architecture walk

Cornell architectural historian Roberta Moudry will lead a walking tour of campus architecture for the Cornell Campus Club, Oct. 6, 10:15-11:30 a.m. The tour is free and open to the public; meet at the "Song of the Vowels" sculpture between Olin and Uris libraries.

The tour focuses on areas south of the Arts Quad and will include Sage Chapel, Sage Hall, Barnes Hall and Snee Hall; as well as Willard Straight Hall and Ho Plaza, the Engineering Quad and the small quadrangle formed by Anabel Taylor and Myron Taylor halls.

Motion picture history

The Ithaca Motion Picture Project will present a multimedia, multipart exhibition on local filmmaking history, "Romance, Exploits and Peril: When Movies Were Made in Ithaca," from Oct. 1 to Nov. 6 at eight Ithaca locations.

Architect Todd Zwigard '82, B.Arch. '84, and the Ithaca firm of Art & Anthropology designed the exhibition. The centerpiece is "Timeline," an 80-foot-long sculptural installation at the Tompkins County Public Library with visuals and text detailing the chronology of motion pictures in Ithaca from 1912-21. and the movie studio that Theodore and Leopold Wharton established in what is now Stewart Park. Julie Simmons-Lynch, program manager in cognitive science, wrote the exhibition text detailing the studio's history, key players and Ithaca's part in the developing film industry.

The seven satellite exhibit locations are Gimme! Coffee on State Street, Greater Ithaca Activities Center, Petrune on The Commons, State Theatre box office, the Crescent Building, Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport and Cayuga Medical Center. Events planned include a walking tour of five of the displays and silent film screenings on Oct. 22. Information: http://www.ithacamotionpictureproject.org.