ITHACA, N.Y. -- Former United States Attorney General Janet Reno will be on the Cornell University campus Feb. 3 through Feb. 14 as a Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 University Professor.

Reno will deliver two free and open public lectures during her stay on campus. The first, titled "Truth and How We Seek It," is Thursday, Feb. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in the Statler Auditorium. Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis. Reno will then deliver the Bernard S. Yudowitz Lecture in Myron Taylor Hall at Cornell Law School, Wednesday, Feb. 12, on the topic "Collaboration Between Law and Public Health." The lecture is at 4:15 p.m. in the Stein Mancuso '73 Amphitheater (room G90).

A 1960 Cornell graduate with a bachelor's degree in chemistry, Reno served as the U.S. attorney general for almost eight years during the Clinton administration, directing the world' s largest justice and federal law-enforcement office. She was the first female attorney general and longest serving attorney general since before the Civil War. Reno returned to Cornell in 2001 to deliver the senior convocation speech during that year's commencement activities. At that time she announced her intention to run for governor of Florida, and last fall she was defeated in the Democratic gubernatorial primary.

Reno's inaugural two-week visit as a Rhodes professor will find her engaging the Cornell community at practically every level and across several disciplines. She will join class discussions in the Departments of Policy Analysis and Management and of Government and in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, and she will explore campaign ethics with students and faculty in the Ethics and Public Life Program as well as meeting with members of the Women's Planning Forum in the Department of City and Regional Planning. During a panel discussion sponsored by the Center for the Study of Inequality, Reno will join a debate on the assimilation of ethnic minorities and also participate in a human development forum on children's policy issues. She will discuss affirmative action and civil rights in an event sponsored by the Graduate School, will be the subject of interviews by College of Human Ecology students in the History of Women in Professions class, sponsored by the Community Development office of Campus Life, and she will meet formally and informally with law students in several classes and activities.

The Rhodes Class of '56 professorship is overseen by the Cornell A.D. White Professors-at-Large Program. Architect Richard Meier, a 1956 Cornell alumnus, and biomedical scientist Edward M. Scolnick, president of Merck Research Laboratories, were appointed Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professors in the program's inaugural year, 2000.

For more information about Reno's visit, contact Gerri Jones at (607) 255-0832 or gaj1@cornell.edu .