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.
Ordinary people are much more adept at scientific reasoning than most psychological literature gives them credit for, argues a Cornell University expert in cognitive development in a new book.
Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences honored outstanding teaching and scholarship at its annual Dean's Award Convocation on April 4. Dean Philip E. Lewis led the afternoon celebration in a packed auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall.
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.
Matthew Semino of Winthrop, Mass., a Cornell junior majoring in human service studies in the College of Human Ecology, has been chosen as a national Truman Scholar.
