On Saturday, April 19, from 1 to 6 p.m. on the Cornell 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."
Antonio Mercader, Uruguay's ambassador to the Organization of American States, will give a lecture at Cornell on 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.
Donald F. Smith, professor of surgery and acting dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell, 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.
Martha Farnsworth Riche, director of the U.S. Census Bureau and a former Ithaca resident, will give a public lecture at Cornell on Monday, April 21, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall.
Kwame Ture, who as Stokely Carmichael was a leading spokesman for the Black Power Movement of the 1960s, will give a lecture at Cornell on Saturday, April 19, at 2 p.m. in Robert Purcell Union.
Calvin W. Schwabe, a world-renowned expert in the relationships of veterinary medicine and human health, will speak on Thursday, April 24, at 4 p.m. in Lecture Hall I of the Veterinary Education Center. A second lecture by Schwabe is set for Friday, April 25, at noon in Lecture Hall I.
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 on Thursday, April 24, at 7:30 p.m. in Statler Auditorium.
Pulitzer Prize--winning author and Civil War historian James M. McPherson will speak at Cornell on Tuesday, April 29, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 165 McGraw Hall.
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's Akwe:kon Press.
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.
