Art Museum open house, student show

The Johnson Museum is offering two free public events: Feb. 21 at 1-4 p.m., the Winter Open House will include performances, art making, tastes and fun for the whole family; Feb. 26 at 8 p.m., the Students Arts Showcase reception hosted by the Museum Club, will feature a wide range of student artwork and live performances. Information: http://museum.cornell.edu/.

Celebrating Schumann

Cornell visiting scholar and pianist Chi-Chen Wu and Ithaca College faculty violinist Nicholas DiEugenio will present a recital of works by Schumann, Feb. 21 at 3 p.m., Barnes Auditorium, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth.

Winner of the National Taiwan Piano and Concerto Competitions, Wu holds a D.M.A. in collaborative piano and a double master's degree in piano solo performance and collaborative piano from the New England Conservatory of Music. At Cornell, Wu works with Malcolm Bilson and Neal Zaslaw.

DiEugenio holds degrees from the Cleveland Institute of Music (B.M., M.M.) and the Yale School of Music (Artist Diploma '08, M.M.A. '09).

Two Temple Grandin events

Temple Grandin -- a scientist, innovator, professor, renowned animal welfare activist, much-in-demand veteran of the speaking circuit and one of the most accomplished and well-known adults with autism -- presents her final lecture as Cornell's Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professor, "Animal Behavior and Welfare," Feb. 24 at 7:30 p.m., Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall. On Feb. 25 at 7 p.m., Willard Straight Theatre, Grandin and producer Scott Ferguson '82 present a new biopic from HBO, starring Claire Danes, which chronicles Grandin's life through the '60s and '70s. Information: http://cinema.cornell.edu.

Digital privacy, state of education lecture

Harry Lewis, professor and former dean of Harvard College, will give two talks, Feb. 25: "Excellence Without a Soul: A Conversation about Undergraduate Education," 9:30-11 a.m. in 226 Weill Hall, and "Dilemmas of Privacy and Knowledge," 4:15-5:30 p.m. in B-17 Upson Hall. He has been called one of Harvard's most provocative deans.

These talks are sponsored by Cornell Information Technologies, University Computer Policy and Law Program, Computer Science Department, College of Engineering Teaching Excellence Institute, and Cornell University Library.

Pulitzer Prize winner poetry reading

Natasha Tretheway will give the Robert Chasen Poetry Reading, Feb. 25, 4:30 p.m. in the Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall. Author of the 2007 Pulitzer-Prize winning "Native Guard" as well as "Bellocq's Ophelia" and "Domestic Work," Tretheway has received numerous fellowships. Currently, she is the Phillis Wheatley Distinguished Chair in Poetry at Emory University.

Latino Studies Program lecture

Ana Yolanda Ramos-Zayas, from the Department of Anthropology and Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University, will present the lecture, "Learning Affect, Embodying Race: Youth, Street Therapy and Neoliberal Emotions in Newark, N.J., Brazil and Puerto Rico," Feb. 25 at 4:30 p.m. in A.D. White House. The event is sponsored by the American Studies Program and the Department of Anthropology.

Talk on student nutrition, attainment in China

Scott Rozelle M.S. '83, Ph.D. '91, senior fellow at Stanford University, reports on a study of nutrition in rural and urban students in China as an explanation of their differences in attainment, Feb. 26 at 4 p.m. in 401 Warren Hall. Results from this research should help to encourage China's Ministry of Education to widen its view of education and provide better nutrition and health care for students.

Talk on assessing Obama's foreign policy

Stephen Walt, professor of international affairs at Harvard University, co-author of "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" and co-editor of the "Cornell Studies in Security Affairs," will present the lecture, "Continuity You Can Believe In: Obama's Foreign Policy After One Year," Feb. 25 at 4:30 p.m. in G10 Biotech. The talk is part of the Einaudi Center's Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series.

Information: http://www.einaudi.cornell.edu/news/headlines.asp?id=2254.

Gallic dance and song

With rich voices, hurdy gurdy, accordions, fiddle, piano, guitars, mandolin, bodhran, jaw harp, bones and foot percussion, French Canadian band Le Vent du Nord performs in Call Auditorium in Kennedy Hall, Feb. 27 at 8 p.m. Masters of the Québécois tradition, the group also revels in Breton, Celtic, gypsy, Senegalese, New Orleans jazz and original music. Advance tickets and at the door. Information: http://www.cornellfolksong.org/events/index.html.