Lt. Col. Oliver L. North will give a free and public lecture at Cornell on Monday, April 14, at 8 p.m. in Statler Hall Auditorium. Titled "The New Conservative Covenant."
Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, one of the key architects of a radically changing NATO, will give a free and public lecture titled "A New NATO, A New Europe" at Cornell on April 24.
Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur will give a poetry reading Thursday, April 10, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall at Cornell.
Abby Joseph Cohen, managing director and co-chair of the Investment Policy Committee of Goldman, Sachs & Co., will deliver the 1997 Durland Lecture on Wednesday, April 9.
The Shimon Peres lecture at Cornell, scheduled for April 30, has been canceled. The Cornell University Program Board, sponsor of the event, has been informed by Peres' speaking agency that the cancellation is due to political developments in Israe.
Yervant Terzian, the James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences and chairman of the astronomy department at Cornell, received an honorary doctor of science degree from the University of Thessaloniki in Greece.
Olive Tjaden, a pioneering architect who supervised the design of more than 400 homes from the 1920s to the 1940s in Garden City, Long Island, including many of that community's grand mansions, died.
Issues of reproductive rights and violence against women take the spotlight in a national conference, 'Bodies, Boundaries and Beyond: The Impact of the Law on Women,' to be held April 4 through 6 at the Cornell Law School.
