Attorneys Richard Burr and Mandy Welch, who six months ago pleaded for Timothy McVeigh's life in the death penalty phase of the Oklahoma City bombing trial, will speak at the Cornell University Law School Nov. 14. Their presentation, "Defending McVeigh's Life: A Conversation with Timothy McVeigh's Lawyers," will begin at 3 p.m. in the MacDonald Moot Courtroom of Myron Taylor Hall.
Nobel Laureate Harold Varmus will speak on "The Origins of Cancer" during the sixth annual Ef Racker Lectureship in Biology and Medicine, Nov. 13 at 8 p.m. in Alice Statler Auditorium, Statler Hall, at Cornell University. The lecture is free and the public is invited. Varmus has been director of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., since November of 1993.
A six-day safari for two in Kenya is among the items that will be up for bid in an auction Saturday, Nov. 15, sponsored by students in the Cornell School of Hotel Administration to benefit Ithaca-area charities and a Hotel School scholarship fund. The silent auction begins at 4:30 p.m. in the Carrier Ballroom of the Statler Hotel, which will be followed by a live auction at 6 p.m.
Four Cornell professors are among the leading researchers who were invited to contribute to the recently published new edition of the four-volume set The Handbook of Child Psychology. The massive, 4,850-page, four-volume reference set, now in its fifth edition, is a comprehensive source book, encyclopedia and research review guide on the current state of knowledge in human development and developmental psychology.
Documents, scientific specimens, works of art and other materials previously available only to a few scholars will be made available worldwide through a new digital imaging program at Cornell. The Cornell Institute for Digital Collections, funded by $2 million in private grants.
The French Studies Program at Cornell is launching its first annual French Festival on campus from Nov. 5 through Nov. 23. Called La Quinzaine, which means fortnight, the festival will include two weeks of lectures, movies, round table discussions, films, recitations, culinary events and concerts.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of National Chemistry Week, the local section of the American Chemical Society (ACS) will hold its annual series of demonstrations and hands-on activities at Pyramid Mall on Saturday, Nov. 1, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The activities will include information on such topics as how plastic bottles are recycled into carpet, how acids and bases are used in everyday life, the "supercool" world of liquid nitrogen, a secret of the Alaskan pipeline, and much more.
A new book offers insight on the interrelationships among some of modern art and literature's most important and influential figures, while shedding significant light on the influence of African, Asian and Pacific cultures on European modernism.
Two of 60 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, announced last week by the White House, will go to Cornell faculty members: Linda K. Nozick, assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering and Patrick J. Stover, assistant professor of nutritional biochemistry.
