Hearing about a habitat

Anne James-Rosenberg of the Lab of Ornithology will read "On Meadowview Street" by Henry Cole on March 19 at 4 p.m. at the lab. The book tells the story of a lawn that becomes a habitat for interesting creatures and colorful birds. Everyone attending will receive a project kit from the lab's Celebrate Urban Birds Project. http://www.birds.cornell.edu

Tap into sap

New York Maple Weekend will be celebrated at Cornell's Arnot Forest in Van Etten, N.Y., March 21 and 22 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visitors can see sap boiling in an evaporator as it becomes syrup, learn how trees are tapped, sap is collected and the forest is managed to promote healthy sugar maple trees. Free. http://www.mapleweekend.com

Exit Eden

It's your last chance to see the "Picturing Eden" exhibition at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, which closes March 22. More than 150 photographs by more than 35 artists explore the idea of paradise through various thematic groupings including "Paradise Lost," "Paradise Reconstructed" and "Paradise Anew." Organized by Rochester's George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, the exhibit next travels to the John and Mabel Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Fla.

Shooting Central Park

Professional wildlife photographer Cal Vornberger, author of "Birds of Central Park," will discuss his techniques for finding and photographing these colorful (and elusive) visitors to the city March 23 at 7:30 p.m. in the Lab of Ornithology. Free. Information: 800-843-BIRD. http://www.birds.cornell.edu

The way it was

Riché Richardson, associate professor at the Africana Studies and Research Center, speaks on "Hattie McDaniel's Legacy and the Rules and 'Mules' of Marriage in Gone with the Wind" March 24 at 4:30 p.m. in the center's Multipurpose Room.

Universal health care?

Psychiatrist David Healy will deliver the Nordlander Lecture in Science and Public Policy March 25 at 4:30 p.m. in Room G10 Biotechnology Building on "The Future of Medical Care: Can an Industrialized and Marketized Healthcare Be Made Universally Available?" Healy is a professor at Cardiff University, Wales.

Art and terror

The Society for the Humanities Annual Invitational Lecture will be given by Salah Hassan on "Contemporary 'Islamic' Art and the Global War on Terror," March 25 at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall. Hassan is Goldwin Smith Professor, director of the Africana Studies and Research Center, and professor of the history of art.

Superconductivity

Physicist Paul C.W. Chu, president of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and a professor at the University of Houston, will give the Bethe Lecture (named for the late Nobel Prize-winning physicist Hans Bethe) on "An Exciting Odyssey of Discovery: From high-temperature superconductors in Houston to developing an intellectual powerhouse in Hong Kong" March 25 at 7:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.

Mystic guru

"An Evening with Kabir" will be held March 25 in Barnes Hall Auditorium. Kabir was a 15th-century mystic-weaver-poet in northern India whose influence on Indian religion and literature continues to this day. The documentary "Journeys with Kabir" plays at 6:30 p.m., followed by a concert by Prahlad Singh Tipanya and Party, an ensemble from the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, at 8 p.m.

Ritmo Caliente

Seven-time Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist Eddie Palmieri brings his Latin Jazz Band to Bailey Hall March 28 at 8 p.m. Palmieri, a professional musician for more than 50 years, is best known for combining jazz piano and instrumental solos with Latin rhythms. http://www.cornellconcertseries.com