Introduction by Valerie Bunce, Aaron Binenkorb Professor of International Studies and Professor of Government.

The event was part of the Einaudi Center's Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series.

In the Voices of Experience series from the Beginning Farmers Resource Center, you'll find the kind of dirt-under-the-fingernails advice that can only come from someone who's been there.

The NY Beginning Farmer Project is led by a team of Cornell Cooperative Extension Educators in partnership with the Cornell Small Farms Program. The project, launched in 2006 in response to increasing interest in farm start-ups, aims to enhance the likelihood of success of new ag enterprises by making the best resources and training available to new and diversifying farmers.

In the Voices of Experience series from the Beginning Farmers Resource Center, you'll find the kind of dirt-under-the-fingernails advice that can only come from someone who's been there.

The NY Beginning Farmer Project is led by a team of Cornell Cooperative Extension Educators in partnership with the Cornell Small Farms Program. The project, launched in 2006 in response to increasing interest in farm start-ups, aims to enhance the likelihood of success of new ag enterprises by making the best resources and training available to new and diversifying farmers.

In the Voices of Experience series from the Beginning Farmers Resource Center, you'll find the kind of dirt-under-the-fingernails advice that can only come from someone who's been there.

The NY Beginning Farmer Project is led by a team of Cornell Cooperative Extension Educators in partnership with the Cornell Small Farms Program. The project, launched in 2006 in response to increasing interest in farm start-ups, aims to enhance the likelihood of success of new ag enterprises by making the best resources and training available to new and diversifying farmers.

In the Voices of Experience series from the Beginning Farmers Resource Center, you'll find the kind of dirt-under-the-fingernails advice that can only come from someone who's been there.

The NY Beginning Farmer Project is led by a team of Cornell Cooperative Extension Educators in partnership with the Cornell Small Farms Program. The project, launched in 2006 in response to increasing interest in farm start-ups, aims to enhance the likelihood of success of new ag enterprises by making the best resources and training available to new and diversifying farmers.

In the Voices of Experience series from the Beginning Farmers Resource Center, you'll find the kind of dirt-under-the-fingernails advice that can only come from someone who's been there.

The NY Beginning Farmer Project is led by a team of Cornell Cooperative Extension Educators in partnership with the Cornell Small Farms Program. The project, launched in 2006 in response to increasing interest in farm start-ups, aims to enhance the likelihood of success of new ag enterprises by making the best resources and training available to new and diversifying farmers.

In the Voices of Experience series from the Beginning Farmers Resource Center, you'll find the kind of dirt-under-the-fingernails advice that can only come from someone who's been there.

The NY Beginning Farmer Project is led by a team of Cornell Cooperative Extension Educators in partnership with the Cornell Small Farms Program. The project, launched in 2006 in response to increasing interest in farm start-ups, aims to enhance the likelihood of success of new ag enterprises by making the best resources and training available to new and diversifying farmers.

In the Voices of Experience series from the Beginning Farmers Resource Center, you'll find the kind of dirt-under-the-fingernails advice that can only come from someone who's been there.

The NY Beginning Farmer Project is led by a team of Cornell Cooperative Extension Educators in partnership with the Cornell Small Farms Program. The project, launched in 2006 in response to increasing interest in farm start-ups, aims to enhance the likelihood of success of new ag enterprises by making the best resources and training available to new and diversifying farmers.

In the Voices of Experience series from the Beginning Farmers Resource Center, you'll find the kind of dirt-under-the-fingernails advice that can only come from someone who's been there.

The NY Beginning Farmer Project is led by a team of Cornell Cooperative Extension Educators in partnership with the Cornell Small Farms Program. The project, launched in 2006 in response to increasing interest in farm start-ups, aims to enhance the likelihood of success of new ag enterprises by making the best resources and training available to new and diversifying farmers.

In the Voices of Experience series from the Beginning Farmers Resource Center, you'll find the kind of dirt-under-the-fingernails advice that can only come from someone who's been there.

The NY Beginning Farmer Project is led by a team of Cornell Cooperative Extension Educators in partnership with the Cornell Small Farms Program. The project, launched in 2006 in response to increasing interest in farm start-ups, aims to enhance the likelihood of success of new ag enterprises by making the best resources and training available to new and diversifying farmers.

In the Voices of Experience series from the Beginning Farmers Resource Center, you'll find the kind of dirt-under-the-fingernails advice that can only come from someone who's been there.

The NY Beginning Farmer Project is led by a team of Cornell Cooperative Extension Educators in partnership with the Cornell Small Farms Program. The project, launched in 2006 in response to increasing interest in farm start-ups, aims to enhance the likelihood of success of new ag enterprises by making the best resources and training available to new and diversifying farmers.

In the Voices of Experience series from the Beginning Farmers Resource Center, you'll find the kind of dirt-under-the-fingernails advice that can only come from someone who's been there.

The NY Beginning Farmer Project is led by a team of Cornell Cooperative Extension Educators in partnership with the Cornell Small Farms Program. The project, launched in 2006 in response to increasing interest in farm start-ups, aims to enhance the likelihood of success of new ag enterprises by making the best resources and training available to new and diversifying farmers.

In the Voices of Experience series from the Beginning Farmers Resource Center, you'll find the kind of dirt-under-the-fingernails advice that can only come from someone who's been there.

The NY Beginning Farmer Project is led by a team of Cornell Cooperative Extension Educators in partnership with the Cornell Small Farms Program. The project, launched in 2006 in response to increasing interest in farm start-ups, aims to enhance the likelihood of success of new ag enterprises by making the best resources and training available to new and diversifying farmers.

The Wellness Program provides faculty, staff, and retirees with diverse opportunities that foster joy, balance, and well-being. This is the first in a series of upcoming Wellness Program podcasts that focus on fitness, nutrition, and health for the Cornell community.

Cradle to Cradle design, as opposed to "cradle to grave," offers a new paradigm for human activity that creates a sustaining relationship with the natural world by emulating living systems that are effective, cyclical, synergetic, and regenerative.

Opening remarks by Cornell University President David J. Skorton.

The Iscol Lecture brings prominent scholars, newsmakers, scientists, and leaders to Cornell to address environmental issues of paramount importance to humankind.

The eClips collection contains thousands of video clips of interviews and presentations by entrepreneurs and business leaders.

After hockey, Dryden served as Canada's minister of social development, 2004-06. He was first elected a member of the Canadian Parliament in 2004 and re-elected in 2006 and 2008. Bradley, a three-time All-American basketball player at Princeton who went on to play for the New York Knicks, served three terms in the U.S. Senate.

International Women's Day is an annual tradition that began in New York City in 1908, when 15,000 women marched to demand improved working hours and pay and voting rights. Cornell students, community members, and Cornell faculty and administration join together to debate, discuss and learn about the hardships and challenges women face around the world.

• Ira Revels discusses the role of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in black education during the mid to early 19th century, using images from the HBCU Digital Collection, a collaborative project involving Cornell University Library and twenty-one HBCUs;
• History professor Margaret Washington discusses black education in antebellum New York City, with a focus on the African Free School. At a time when no public education existed, this privately run institution provided formative education for individuals who became the most important African American leaders in the pre-Civil War era;
• Ithaca College Professor Sean Eversley-Bradwell presents the history of black students in Ithaca, NY, revealing numerous examples of resistance and agency. This history helps to map how race impacts and structures local communities.

Robert P. Kirshner, the Harvard College Professor of Astronomy and Clowes Professor of Science at Harvard University and president of the American Astronomical Society from 2003 to 2005, describes how we use observations of supernovi—exploding stars—to trace cosmic history and to learn more about the nature of the dark energy, one of the deepest mysteries of the physical world.

The Bethe Lecture Series, established in 1977 by the Cornell Department of Physics and the College of Arts and Sciences, honors Hans A. Bethe who joined Cornell's faculty in 1936, and whose research extended across fields as diverse as the quantum theory of solids and the nuclear processes that power the sun, receiving the Nobel Prize for the later work in 1967. Bethe continued to make significant scientific contributions until his death in 2005.

Holloway has used her unique background in writing, public health, and development to further the mission of numerous non-profits and educational institutions including Planned Parenthood and the National Priorities Project.

CIPA's Colloquium Series engages participants in discussions of issues facing public affairs and public policy professionals.

Mark Noll, the Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History at the University of Notre Dame, revisits A.D. White's thesis and the persistence of the warfare metaphor, and suggests some paths forward in the relationship between science and religion. Noll is the author of many books, including "America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln," "The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind," and most recently, "God and Race in American Politics."

The Frederick C. Wood Lecture, established by Emma T. Wood and former Cornell trustee Frederick C. Wood in 1984, is intended to bring scholars of innovative religious thought to campus.

With faculty and students conducting research, educating communities, and improving the quality of life in every area of the developing world, CALS truly is Making a World of Difference.

With faculty and students conducting research, educating communities, and improving the quality of life in every area of the developing world, CALS truly is Making a World of Difference.

With faculty and students conducting research, educating communities, and improving the quality of life in every area of the developing world, CALS truly is Making a World of Difference.

With faculty and students conducting research, educating communities, and improving the quality of life in every area of the developing world, CALS truly is making a world of difference.

Barlow discussed principles of water as a common and a public trust, integrated watershed management and restoration, public oversight and local management of water supplies based on local cultures and histories, and the human right to water.

The conference gathered Mediterranean and local water experts, students and others to present research into the water crisis and discuss a strategy for future action and research in the area.

Hopkins is the 2009 recipient of the prestigious CALS Edgerton Career Teaching Award and a faculty mentor in Cornell's introductory biology Exploration Program. Students in the program choose a topic of interest and participate in the research, working with lab equipment and gathering data in the labs of some of the top researchers in the country.

A biology teacher at Ridgeview High School in Orange Park, Fla., Campbell visited campus Feb. 11 during Darwin Days to share his experiences teaching evolution and natural selection—scientific principles that may be contrary to many of his students' religious beliefs.

Introduction by Cornell President Emeritus Hunter R. Rawlings III.

The event was part of the Einaudi Center's Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series.

Kay is an associate professor of history at SUNY Oswego. She spoke at Cornell on March 4, 2009 in Mann Library.

Guests:

• Ava Danville '09, graduate of the College of Human Ecology
• Francille Firebaugh, Dean Emerita of the College of Human Ecology
• Joan Jacobs Brumberg, Professor Emerita of Human Development
• Alan Mathios, Dean of the College of Human Ecology
• Scott Peters, Associate Professor of Education

Hosted by Gary Stewart, East Hill Notes is a monthly talk show on topics of interest to the Cornell and Ithaca communities.

Best known for his work on the 1970s British television series "Monty Python's Flying Circus" and "Fawlty Towers," Cleese served an 8-year term as A.D. White Professor (1998-2006) and currently holds the Cornell University Provost's Visiting Professorship.

The lecture was held February 12, 2009 in the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium at Cornell's Goldwin Smith Hall, as part of Ithaca's Darwin Day celebration.

Sen, a former Cornell A.D. White Professor-at-Large (1978-84), is the Lamont University Professor and professor of economics and philosophy at Harvard University. Sen was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Economics for his contributions to welfare economics. During his expansive academic career, Sen's research has spanned a number of fields, including development economics, social choice theory, public health, gender studies, moral and political philosophy, and the economics of peace and war.

The George Staller lecture series, established by the Department of Economics, honors Cornell Ph.D. and professor emeritus George Staller, a renowned teacher and scholar of Eastern European and Soviet economies.

Guests: Frank Robinson, director, Johnson Museum of Art; John Fitzpatrick, director, Lab of Ornithology; Donald Rakow, director, Cornell Plantations; Jeanie Hochberg and class, Nathan Hall Elementary School; Cathy Klimaszewski, associate director, Johnson Museum of Art; Carol Hockett, coordinator of school and family programs, Johnson Museum of Art.

Hosted by Gary Stewart, East Hill Notes is a monthly talk show on topics of interest to the Cornell and Ithaca communities.

Cornell President David Skorton pointed out that Cornellians have the advantage of a liberal arts education, perhaps "the most useful and versatile education of all" especially in a time of national and personal economic uncertainty. A liberal arts education offers five important "habits of mind": critical thinking, self-expression, a nuanced view of the world that comes from exposure to the arts and humanities, a sense of ethics and cross-cultural understanding, he said. "The depth, the richness and the diversity of our ideas inspire cross-fertilization and originality."

The panel included:

• William B. Provine, the Andrew H. and James S. Tisch Distinguished University Professor and professor of history at Cornell
• S. James Gates, the John S. Toll Professor of Physics at the University of Maryland, College Park and member of President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
• Kenneth Kennedy, professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell

The panel was held on February 10, 2009 in Goldwin Smith Hall on the Cornell University campus.

Darwin Day is an annual, international commemoration of the birthday and ideas of Charles Darwin, a British naturalist born February 12, 1809, and author of the seminal book "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection."

The panel included:

• Andrew G. Clark, professor of population genetics
• Carlos Bustamante, professor of biological statistics and computational biology & statistical sciences
• William Crepet, chair of the plant biology department

The panel was held on February 9, 2009 in the Biotech building on the Cornell University campus.

Darwin Day is an annual, international commemoration of the birthday and ideas of Charles Darwin, a British naturalist born February 12, 1809, and author of the seminal book "On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection."

Marcus Rediker uses his experience as a maritime historian and his mastery of the contemporary documents to re-create all three legs of the triangle, often in the very words of the participants -- captains, seamen and slaves.

Dr. Marcus Rediker graduated with a B.A. from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1976. He went to the University of Pennsylvania for graduate study, earning an M.A. and Ph.D. in history. He taught at Georgetown University from 1982 to 1994, lived in Moscow for a year (1984-5), and is currently Professor and Chair in the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Marcus Rediker has written (or co-written) five books: Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea (1987), Who Built America? (1989), volume one; The Many-Headed Hydra (2000), Villains of All Nations (2004) and The Slave Ship: A Human History (2007).

Crawford adds images of skin color dilution as a type of castration to the field of race and psychoanalysis. An undercurrent of light-skinned blackness as a type of castration emerges within an ongoing story about the feminizing of light skin and the masculinizing of dark skin. Crawford confronts the web of beautified and eroticized brands and scars, created by colorism, crisscrossing race, gender, and sexuality.

Crawford is an associate professor of African American Literature in the W.E.B. Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts. She received her doctorate in American Studies from Yale University. Professor Crawford is the co-editor of New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement (2006, Rutgers University Press) and author of Dilution Anxiety and the Black Phallus (2008, Ohio State University Press).

Garson spoke April 20, 2009 in Goldwin Smith Hall's Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, laying out the topography of the health care debate, defining terms and dispelling a few myths along the way.

The lecture was the keynote address and kickoff event for Cornell's first annual Sick in America series. It also was the inaugural event for the Cornell University Presidential Speakers Series on Current Affairs, a new series sponsored by President David Skorton.

The annual Cornell Business and Medicine Symposium is sponsored by Weill Cornell Medical College and The Johnson Graduate School of Management.

The prince is a founder of the King Faisal Foundation and chairman of the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh. He was appointed an adviser in the Saudi royal court in 1973. From 1977 to 2001, he served as the director general of the General Intelligence Directorate, the kingdom's main foreign intelligence service. In 2002 he was appointed ambassador to the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.

His visit is part of the Einaudi Center's Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series.

Fajardo received his M.S. and Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He has taught at several universities including the National University in Bogota and Medellín. He has also worked as a journalist for publications such as Money Magazine.

This lecture was presented on February 19, 2009 and is part of the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA) 2008-09 Colloquium Series. CIPA offers a two-year program of graduate professional study leading to a master of public administration (M.P.A.) degree.

Merewether, currently a research fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University, reflected on his experiences as an art historian on Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

The Imag(in)ing Asia and the Pacific symposium, held Feb. 20-21, 2009 at Cornell's A.D. White House, explored emerging visualities in the light of the complex, and changing socio-political and economic issues that affect countries, peoples, institutions and practice in Asia and the Pacific. The event was sponsored by the Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies.

On April 13, 2009, a delegation of Chinese government officials, led by State Councilor Liu Yandong, visited campus to begin the process of repatriating the fungi to China.

At a ceremony in Weill Hall, President David Skorton presented Liu with a letter of intent explaining Cornell's lengthy efforts to return the fungi.

Linda Nowak is an associate professor of pharmacology at the department of molecular medicine of the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine. She is also an avid coffee drinker. Chris Ganger is a 2008 Northeast Regional Barista Competition finalist who presides over the espresso machine at Ithaca Coffee Company.

The event was held on January 25, 2009 in Statler Hall and was part of the annual Light in Winter Festival of Science and the Arts, which some 6,000 people attended. Cornell has been one of its sponsors since the festival began six years ago.

Halpern is the co-founder of Redshift Productions and the co-producer and lyricist for Galileo and Elements. She received her B.A. in painting from Smith College in 1997. Megan has been a scenic artist for Madison Square Garden, Second Stage Theatre, the New York Shakespeare Festival, and Atlantic Scenic Studios. She has designed scenery for Stages of Learning (formerly Chekhov Theatre Ensemble), where her design for King Lear earned her an OOBR Award; and for Forbidden Broadway's Twentieth Anniversary Production.

The event was held on January 24, 2009 in Statler Hall and was part of the annual Light in Winter Festival of Science and the Arts, which some 6,000 people attended. Cornell has been one of its sponsors since the festival began six years ago.

Tisch is the owner and winemaker at Bet the Farm in Aurora, N.Y. She has worked as a medical laboratory technologist, professor of ecology and mathematics, innkeeper, and more. A native of Rhode Island, Tisch has resided in Ithaca since 1998.

The event was held on January 24, 2009 in Statler Hall and was part of the annual Light in Winter Festival of Science and the Arts, which some 6,000 people attended. Cornell has been one of its sponsors since the festival began six years ago.

Frank received his MA and Ph.D. in political science from the Johns Hopkins University, and a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz. Before coming to Cornell, Jason taught at Johns Hopkins, Goucher College, University of California, Santa Cruz, Duke and Northwestern. He has also held research fellowships at UCLA's Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies, Duke's Franklin Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. His primary field is political theory and his research and teaching interests include democratic theory, American political thought, politics and literature, political culture, and the philosophy of political inquiry.

The Nordlander Lecture Series, sponsored by Cornell's Department of Science and Technology Studies, was established in memory of J. Eric Nordlander (Cornell A.B. 1956), a distinguished scientist and educator who died in 1986.

Salzberg spoke at Cornell on Oct. 30, as part of the fall 2008 Park Leadership Speaker Series. The event was recorded for eClips, Cornell's collection of audio and video clips of experts on entrepreneurship, business and leadership.

The Roy H. Park Leadership Speaker Series, supported directly by the Triad Foundation, brings influential "thought leaders" and corporate executives to campus to give a lecture on the theme of leadership and to interact candidly with students.

The Durland Memorial Lecture series, which brings distinguished executives from the fields of business, finance and investment management to Cornell annually, is the most prestigious invitational talk at Cornell's Johnson School.

Hesse spoke at Cornell on Oct. 2, 2008, as part of the fall 2008 Park Leadership Speaker Series.

The Roy H. Park Leadership Speaker Series, supported directly by the Triad Foundation, brings influential "thought leaders" and corporate executives to campus to give a lecture on the theme of leadership and to interact candidly with students.

Kiplinger is chairman emeritus of the Cornell Board of Trustees (1984-89) and has been a trustee since 1960. He has been a presidential councillor since 1989.

Kiplinger was his class orator, giving the class oration in June 1939 from the plinth in front of the statue of Andrew Dickson White. The bench in front of McGraw Hall looks across the quad toward that spot. It is a gift from his extended family and from David Maisel '68 and his wife, Martha.

The Awaji Puppet Theater performance at Cornell's Bailey Hall on Feb. 24, 2009 highlighted Awaji puppetry's elaborate theater sets, costumes and props, and highly refined mechanisms that manipulate the facial expressions of the puppets.

The visit was sponsored by the Cornell East Asia Program, Japan Society, Japan Foundation and Agency for Cultural Affairs.

"Lincoln at Gettysburg" by Garry Wills is the selection for the 8th New Student Reading project.

The panel is chaired by Michele Moody-Adams, professor, director/Hutchinson Professor of Ethics and Public Life, and vice-provost for undergraduate education.

She is joined by:

• Hunter Rawlings, the former president of Cornell University and currently professor of classical history
• Ed Baptist, associate professor of history, who's academic focus is the 19th-century United States, especially the U.S. South; slavery in the United States and in the New World (especially in the Caribbean); political culture; gender and racial identity
• Tad Brennan, professor of philosophy, with interests in ancient philosophy, and topical interests centering around ethics.

Guests: Kent Hubbell, Lucy Brown, Jackie Melton Scott, George Taber and Jane Marcham.

Hosted by Gary Stewart, East Hill Notes is a monthly talk show on topics of interest to the Cornell and Ithaca communities.

Jane Silverthorne, deputy director of NSF's Division of Biological Infrastructure, discussed the role of basic research in this process during her visit to Cornell's Boyce Thompson Institute on April 7, 2009.

Guests: Svante Myrick, John Schroeder, Mary Tomlan and Thys Van Cort.

Sunday Forum is a monthly talk show on topics of interest to the Cornell and Ithaca communities, co-hosted by Tommy Bruce and Kara Capelli. New episodes air on WVBR 93.5 FM at 6:30 PM on the first Sunday of each month.

In this Faculty Forum, Ken and moderator Glenn Altschuler discuss the state of the nation's highways and bridges, the efficacy of inspection, and the concerns raised by the recent rush-hour collapse of the Interstate 35 bridge over the Mississippi near Minneapolis.

The private sector initiatives team seeks to create innovative and collaborative mechanisms to leverage MCC investments through private sector partnerships; increase private sector investment and trade opportunities produced by MCC investments and; generate opportunities for firms to leverage their corporate social responsibility funds.

Bauer holds an M.B.A. from Cornell University, The Johnson School of Business as a Michael Torphy scholar.

This lecture was presented on February 12, 2009 and is part of the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA) 2008-09 Colloquium Series. CIPA offers a two-year program of graduate professional study leading to a master of public administration (M.P.A.) degree.

Cornell first offered creative writing courses in 1905 as part of the English department curriculum. Since then, the university has counted many literary greats among its faculty and former students, including Pynchon, Ammons, E.B. White, Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Vladimir Nabokov, Lorrie Moore and Susan Choi; Pulitzer Prize winners Díaz and Alison Lurie; and Nobel laureates Toni Morrison and Pearl S. Buck.

Panelists:

• Ernesto Quinoñez, Moderator, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Cornell
• Junot Díaz, Associate Professor of Creative Writing, MIT
• Roberto Sierra, Professor and Chair of Music, Cornell
• Sofia Villenas, Professor of Education and Latino/a Studies, Cornell
• Amy Villarejo, Associate Professor and Chair of Theatre, Film & Dance, Cornell

The event was co-sponsored by the Latino Studies Program and the Cornell Council for the Arts.

Panelists: Retired senior research associate Mossaad Abdel-Ghany, Luis-Francois de Lencquesaing '09, Syed Saad Ahsan '10, political philosophy professor Richard Miller, and Cornell law student David Jacobus.

Nic van de Walle, associate dean for international studies and professor of government, moderated the event, which was sponsored by numerous campus organizations.

You can connect with nature at Cornell Plantations, which features an arboretum, botanical garden and 4300 acres of protected natural areas—all free and open to the public every day from dawn to dusk.

A veterinarian, King served as the first director of CDC's Office of Strategy and Innovation before coming to National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases. In 2006, King became a new member of the FDA Scientific Board. He was dean and professor of the College of Veterinary Medicine, Michigan State University, roles he took on in 1996. Before that, he dedicated 20 years of his career to the United States Department of Agriculture.

This lecture was held on Feb. 6, 2009 in Schurman Hall as part of the Zoonotic Diseases Symposium and was sponsored by the College of Veterinary Medicine.

Detlef van Vuuren is a senior researcher at the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and was a lead author in the 2007 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He has played a leading role in designing emissions reductions that keep global warming to low limits, providing influential background for post-Kyoto negotiations.

van Vuuren spoke on Feb. 2, 2009 in Goldwin Smith Hall as part of the Climate Change Forum. The forum is an initiative of Cornell faculty in the natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, and humanities for deeply interdisciplinary mutual learning in pursuit of an effective and just response to the challenge of global warming. It is sponsored by the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future, with support from the Colleges of Engineering and Agriculture & Life Sciences and the Institute for Computational Sustainability.

The event was held on January 22, 2009 at the Lost Dog Lounge and was part of the annual Light in Winter Festival of Science and the Arts, which some 6,000 people attended. Cornell has been a sponsors since the festival began six years ago.

Guests: Frank Disalvo, director of the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future; Dean Koyanagi, Cornell sustainability coordinator; Todd Cowen, Cornell professor of civil & environmental engineering; David Leib, assistant director for Public Information Transportation; Edward R. Wilson, manager, Central Utility Plants and Katherine McEachern, Cornell student activist and former leader of KyotoNOW!

Sunday Forum is a monthly talk show on topics of interest to the Cornell and Ithaca communities. New episodes air on WVBR 93.5 FM at 6:30 PM on the first Sunday of each month.

Azis spoke on Jan. 23, 2009 in Goldwin Smith. The event lecture was cosponsored by the Department of City and Regional Planning and the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

November is the month of Andrew D. White's birth and death, and a fitting time to reflect on White's contributions to the University's founding and growth. Kammen, whose published works include two books on Cornell history and several works on the practice of local history, will highlight White's commitment to coeducation and nonsectarianism, and the centrality of the library and of beauty to his concept of the University.

Kammen spoke on Nov. 12, 2008 in Sage Chapel.

Not a worship service, more than a lecture, Sage Wednesdays allows for the expression of a public philosophy and public theology and consideration of the personal pursuit of meaning and purpose. The series provides an opportunity to reflect upon and discuss the important issues of our time, creating the space for scholarly exploration and spiritual meditation.

Established in 1991, the GEF helps developing countries fund projects and programs that protect the global environment. It is comprised of 178 members and has made grants totaling $8 billion.

This lecture is part of the Cornell Institute for Public Affairs (CIPA) 2008-09 Colloquium Series. CIPA offers a two-year program of graduate professional study leading to a master of public administration (M.P.A.) degree.

Verena Conley (Senior Scholar in Residence, Society for the Humanities at Cornell and Professor of Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University) has written on feminism, technologies, and the environment in post-structuralist theory and the transformations of space in contemporary French culture. Her books include "Hélène Cixous: Writing the feminine;" "Ecopolitics," "Rethinking Technologies."

Conley presented her paper on Nov. 12, 2008 in the A.D. White House.

Loneliness disrupts not only thinking ability, will power and perseverance but also key cellular processes within the human body, potentially leading to high blood pressure, decline in immune response, and dramatic increase in the corrosive effects of stress. Using sophisticated tools, including fMRI, Cacioppo has documented how social isolation, distinguished from physical isolation, profoundly affects our body and behavior, suggesting that chronic loneliness could be considered as dangerous to health as risk factors such as smoking.

Cacioppo is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor at The University of Chicago, the director of the University of Chicago Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, and the director of the Arete Initiative at the University of Chicago.

He spoke on Oct. 31, 2008 at the Cornell Bookstore.

Panelists for the Oct. 17 discussion included:

• Michael Dorf, Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
• Edward E. Baptist, Associate Professor of History, Cornell University
• Glenn C Altschuler, Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies and Dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions, Cornell University.

Following his remarks, Skorton addressed questions from the audience about the medical college in Qatar, Land Grant, strategic planning, retirements, layoffs and construction costs.

The forum was held March 16, 2009 in Alice Statler Auditorium.

In this lecture, Thomas Eisner, Schurman Professor of Chemical Ecology, discusses the medicinal treasury of nature, and how revenue engendered from that treasury can be invested in the protection of biodiversity.

BioNB 221 is a general introduction to the field of animal behavior. Topics include evolution and behavior, behavioral ecology, sociobiology, chemical ecology, communication, orientation and navigation, and hormonal mechanisms of behavior.

Itai Cohen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physics, Laura Harrington is an Associate Professor of Entomology and Ronald Hoy is a Professor in the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior.

Ronald Hoy is the David and Dorothy Merksamer Professor in Biology and the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior.

The hope is that, by understanding the courtship of these mosquitoes, we may be able to control their population more effectively.

Harrington's research is supported by numerous grants including one from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

This presentation was held on Feb. 26, 2009 in Warren Hall as part of the Department of Applied Economics and Management's (AEM) Current Events Series, which melds hot topics with the cutting-edge research of AEM's faculty.

After a video about Cornell, members of the on-campus group discussed Cornell's colleges, the university's land-grant mission, graduate and undergraduate admission requirements, various degree programs and financial aid.

Participants from Cornell were:

• J. Ellen Gainor, associate dean of the Graduate School
• Christine Sneva, assistant director of undergraduate admissions
• Roy Ashok, a student at the Johnson School
• Wendy Schaerer, student services associate, Undergraduate Admissions

Larry P. Walker is a professor in the Department of Biological & Environmental Engineering; Anthony Hay is an associate professor in the Department of Microbiology. They spoke Oct. 18, 2008 at the Statler Hotel.

Guests: Susan Murphy, Vice President for Student and Academic Services; Tony Cashen '57, MBA '58, chair of the Fraternity and Sorority Advisory Council; Alison Ewing '10, Panhellenic Association President-elect; Eddie Rooker '10, Interfraternity Council President-Elect; Allen Miller '11, Executive Vice President-elect.

Sunday Forum is a monthly talk show on topics of interest to the Cornell and Ithaca communities. New episodes air on WVBR 93.5 FM at 6:30 PM on the first Sunday of each month.

East Hill Notes is a monthly talk show on topics of interest to the Cornell and Ithaca communities.

East Hill Notes is a monthly talk show on topics of interest to the Cornell and Ithaca communities.

Moderator Francine Blau from ILR Labor Economics was joined by:

• Sean Nicholson, associate professor of policy analysis and management, College of Human Ecology
• Maureen O'Hara, Robert W. Purcell professor of management, The Johnson School
• Eswar Prasad, Tolani senior professor of trade policy, Department of Applied Economics and Management (AEM)
• Karl Shell, Thorne professor of economics, Department of Economics

This session was held on Feb. 19, 2009 at Kennedy Hall and was sponsored by the Institute for the Advancement of Economics at Cornell (IAEC).

Robert Morgan is the author of eleven books of poetry, most recently "The Strange Attractor: New and Selected Poems," and eight works of fiction, including "Gap Creek," "Brave Enemies: A Novel of the American Revolution" and "Boone: A Biography." A native of western North Carolina, Morgan has received the Southern Book Award for "Gap Creek," which was a New York Times bestseller and a selection for the Oprah Book Club, and the Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Since 1971 he has taught at Cornell University, where he is Kappa Alpha Professor of English.

Rampersad and Morgan spoke Nov. 19, 2008, at Goldwin Smith. The lecture was organized by the Minority, Indigenous, and Third World Studies Research Group (MITWS), and co-sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and Professor Kenneth A. McClane.

Snedeker is a toxicologist, cancer biologist and public health educator. She received her B.S. from Cornell University and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and served as a staff fellow at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) before joining the Cornell faculty in 1995. She continues her risk assessment research and extension outreach in the Sprecher Institute for Comparative Cancer Research at Cornell.

Snedeker's presentation was given as a part a Cancer and Environment Regional Forum that took place at the Wang Center of Stony Brook University on Long Island, NY on November 3, 2008. This forum, which was open to the public, was sponsored by the Cornell Program on Breast Cancer and Environmental Risk Factors (BCERF).

Members of the Cornell University Solar Decathlon (CUSD) team, which consists of nearly 200 undergrad and graduate students from across the university, presented the design, key systems and sustainability features of their 2009 entry.

In addition, Stephanie Horowitz discussed her transition from 2005 CUSD Team Leader to co-founder and managing director of ZeroEnergy Design (ZED), a leading residential design and engineering firm.

Speakers include:

• Trustees Jill Lerner and Jeff Berg
• Dean Kent Kleinman
• 2009 Cornell Solar Decathlon Team student leaders
• Faculty advisor Matt Ulinski
• Alumni David Wax and Stephanie Horowitz

This event was held on Jan. 12, 2009 in the AAP Center in New York City and was sponsored by Cornell Entrepreneur Network (CEN) NY and the College of Architecture, Art & Planning, the College of Engineering, the College of Agriculture & Life Sciences and the Johnson Graduate School of Management.

He spoke at Cornell's Snee Hall on December 9, 2008. The event was sponsored by the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.

Gallagher is editor-in-chief of Living Bird magazine, an award-winning quarterly magazine sent to members of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

The Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology is the world's largest natural sound and video archive of animal behavior. Since 1930, recordists of all backgrounds have contributed their recordings, which now number in the hundred thousands.

Díaz, a professor of creative writing at MIT and fiction editor of the Boston Review, read from his novel, "The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao," for which he received the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.

Díaz wrote most of his first collection of short stories (published as "Drown" in 1996) while in the Creative Writing Program at Cornell. "Oscar Wao," his semiautobiographical debut novel about the immigrant experience and much more, focuses on a science fiction- and fantasy-obsessed misfit living with his Dominican-American family in New Jersey. The novel also won the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.

In 1997, the Cornell Council for the Arts, in collaboration with University Council's Committee on the Arts, established the Cornell Eissner Artist of the Year Award to celebrate an alumna/us who has achieved national or international success in the arts. The award is named in recognition of Bruce and Judith Eissner's Endowment for the Arts at Cornell.