Lee Teng-hui, former president of Taiwan, is planning to travel to Cornell, where he earned his Ph.D. in agricultural economics in 1968, on a personal visit in early May to see his granddaughter, a Cornell student, and to meet with students and faculty at his alma mater. Lee's visit to Cornell is planned for May 2-4. No public speeches or events are anticipated.
The 2001 James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony at Cornell will be awarded to the Cornell Interactive Theatre Ensemble. The award, carrying a $5,000 cash prize, was created and endowed seven years ago by Cornell alumnus and trustee Thomas W. Jones.
Warren Rudman, former U.S. senator from New Hampshire, will deliver the inaugural Ben and Rhoda Belnick Fund for Government Studies Lecture Thursday, April 26, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall at Cornell.
A collaborative workshop drawing from the disciplines of art, science, and computing will be held April 20 and 21 to launch Cornell Library's sponsorship of the Internet art journal Ctheory Multimedia , a semi-annual collection of electronic art and theory to be published this spring.
The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded $25,000 to the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art for its popular Objects and Their Makers: New Insights educational kits for area schools. The program introduces schoolchildren and their teachers to the arts of other cultures.
It's a student takeover of the most welcome variety -- the annual fete called Hotel Ezra Cornell on the Cornell campus. On Friday, April 20, Statler Hotel managers will hand over the ceremonial key to the on-campus facility to directors, and for the rest of the weekend all hotel services and events will be handled by more than 400 student.
Cornell graduates Harold O. Levy, '74, '79 JD, and Randi Weingarten, '80, are more accustomed to meeting over bargaining tables than dinner tables. But on April 19, these two distinguished alumni -- and friends -- will meet as guests of honor at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
Robert S. Langer, chairman of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's science board, the federal agency's highest advisory panel, will deliver the 2001 Julian C. Smith Lectures in the School of Chemical Engineering at Cornell Monday, April 23, and Tuesday, April 24.
Celebrated poet Ruth Stone will read from her works at Cornell for the Creative Writing Program's biannual Chasen Poetry Reading Thursday, April 19, at 4 p.m. in the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall.
Samuel Bodman, the recently nominated U.S. deputy secretary of commerce, told an audience of prominent engineers and researchers last Friday that Washington is not doing enough to fund physical sciences, math, chemistry, physics and engineering.