The Cornell Political Forum, a 12-year-old student organization at Cornell that publishes the award-winning quarterly journal of the same name, will host a panel discussion on China on Monday, March 31, at 8 p.m. in Auditorium D of Goldwin Smith Hall.
Debora Kuller Shuger, professor of English at the University of California at Los Angeles, will visit Cornell in April to deliver a lecture titled "Glutinous Gums and the Stream of Consciousness: The Theology of Milton's Comus."
Patricia Nelson Limerick, a professor of history at the University of Colorado at Boulder and one of the pioneers of the trend known as "New Western History," will deliver three Carl Becker Lectures at Cornell March 31 through April 2. She will deliver the lectures, which are free and open to the public.
More than 80 percent of college undergraduate students are smart enough to take a nap and help restore their mental and physical powers, according to a survey of 802 Cornell psychology students.
Tzvetan Todorov, an internationally renowned writer and director of research at the Centre National de Recherches in Paris, will visit Cornell on March 24-28 as a Clark Fellow.
Robert H. Foote, Cornell professor emeritus of animal science and one of the pioneers in cloning, will testify at hearings on cloning before the New York State Senate Committee on Investigation on Thursday, March 13 in New York City.
Robert D. Ralyea, a U.S. Army chief warrant officer and a Cornell graduate student in food science, was given the Meritorious Service Medal one of the Army's most prestigious peacetime awards on Feb. 25.
