Noted architect and Harvard professor George Baird will be at Cornell University in April to discuss what constitutes "public" space in postindustrial America and how such space might be made vibrant.
"There will be no genuine third party, and certainly no real transformation into a multiparty system, without a constitutional revolution," says Theodore J. Lowi, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at Cornell.
Rabbi Mark L. Winer, senior rabbi at the Jewish Community Center/Kol Ami in White Plains, N.Y., and president of the National Council of Synagogues, will give a public lecture on Thursday, May 9, at 4:15 p.m. at the CafŽ in Anabel Taylor Hall.
Betty Friedan's life and Cornell connection celebrated. The occasion for these tributes was the celebration of Friedan's life, April 24 at Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR). Sponsored by the Provost's Office, the Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies (FGSS) program and the ILR School.
Three Cornell seniors and one alumna receive Mellon Fellowships for graduate study. The recipients of the prestigious award, which includes a $13,500 stipend plus tuition and fees.
Germany's highest civilian award, the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Officer of the Cross of the Order of Merit), will be conferred on Klaus W. Beyenbach, Cornell professor of physiology.
Maria Antonia Garcés, a professor in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell, has been awarded the Modern Language Association's 34th James Russell Lowell Prize.
Elie Wiesel will speak in Bailey Hall on the campus Nov. 4 at 8 p.m. Imprisoned in the Nazi death camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald at age 15, Wiesel survived to write about the horrific experience in such books as Night.
John Shipley Rowlinson, the Dr. Lee's Professor of Chemistry at Oxford University, will be at Cornell University from April 27 through May 4 as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.