Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times Iraq war correspondent and television news commentator, will deliver a free public lecture on Monday, Oct. 25, at 4:45 p.m. in the David L. Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall at Cornell University.
Author and illustrator Bente Starcke King will demonstrate botanical drawing and watercolor techniques and sign copies of her new book, Beautiful Botanicals in the Cornell Plantations Garden Gift Shop on campus.
President Jeffrey Lehman will cut the red ribbon that marks the official grand reopening of the renovated School of Industrial and Labor Relations Conference Center, Research and Extension Buildings Oct. 15.
Duffield Hall, Cornell's landmark nanotechnology center and its first new research facility of the 21st century, will be dedicated on Oct. 6 in a ceremony in the building's atrium.
Comedian, actor and author John Cleese returns to Cornell University in his role as A.D. White Professor-at-Large to deliver a public lecture titled "What is Religion? Musings on the 'Life of Brian,'" Friday, Oct. 22.
Laura Flanders, author and radio host on Air America, will present a lecture, "Gender Politics in the Age of Bush," on Sept. 30 at 7 p.m. in Auditorium D, Goldwin Smith Hall on the campus. The event is sponsored by Students Acting for Gender Equality and by Mock Election 2004.
The future of fusion power may lie not in a 20 million-ampere bang, but a 1-million-ampere pop. Plasma studies unwinds a powerful COBRA for high-density simulations.
Cornell alumnus Steven B. Belkin, chairman and founder of Trans National Group, will be honored on campus, Oct. 14-15, as Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year 2004.
Internationally renowned architect Peter Eisenman will be on campus to celebrate his 50th reunion at Cornell University this weekend. The winner of numerous architectural awards, Eisenman '54 earned his B.Arch. degree at Cornell's College of Architecture, Art and Planning. (June 10, 2004)
