The Honorable Haris Silajdzic, co-prime minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, will be the 1997 Henry E. and Nancy Horton Bartels World Affairs Fellow at Cornell Oct. 16 and 17. Silajdzic will present the Bartels Fellowship Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 16, at 4 p.m. in the Alice Statler Auditorium, Statler Hall.
Vicki Goldberg, the photography critic for The New York Times, will deliver the Georges Lurcy Lecture Saturday, Oct. 4, at 3 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall. Goldberg will speak on "Photography Storms the Gates of Art," a presentation on the rise of photography to the level of an art form, as evidenced by its inclusion in museum collections.
Just when the world's getting really confusing and you're not feeling good about yourself, when it seems nobody will listen -- or even sit when you tell them to -- along come the Cornell Companions.
Historically, home economics has been dismissed as a conspiracy to keep women in the kitchen, says a new book that takes a fresh look at home economics and how race, class, gender, politics and professionalism have influenced women's options and home economics historically.
Cigarette smoking is a form of child abuse, says one of the nation's leading child abuse experts, and it's high time we recognize it as such. "More young children are killed by parental smoking than by all unintentional injuries combined," says James Garbarino, an internationally recognized expert on child protection.
When African women work outside the home, their families reap more income but often with potentially "deleterious consequences on the health of their very young children," according to new Cornell research.
Extending university expertise in toxicology and risk-assessment to decision-makers, corporations and the general public as well as developing undergraduate-level education programs in environmental toxicology are among the priorities for the new director of Cornell's Institute for Comparative and Environmental Toxicology.
Cornell Cooperative Extension will present Daniel R. Wegman, president of Wegmans Food Markets Inc. of Rochester with the 1997 Friend of Extension Award.
Nursing staff and family members of residents in nursing homes often distrust and misunderstand each other, feel powerless to improve communication and feel distressed by the situation, according to a Cornell study.
Pet a lamb, milk a cow and see how animal scientists care for a variety of farm animals at the open house at Cornell's Animal Science Teaching and Research Center in Dryden on Saturday, Oct. 4. This free open house will feature tours of the center from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
"Epoch magazine is the best-kept secret at Cornell," says the magazine's editor Michael Koch. "Some people are astonished to know that there's a major literary magazine being published on campus."
They go from bugs to drugs. Thanks to the confluence of a new technology in virology and a recent patent in rearing insects, scientists at the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research Inc., located at Cornell, have found a better way to produce commercial quantities of recombinant pharmaceutical proteins -- out of insect larvae.
