Events Calendar

Events

Wednesday, October 17

Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise Fall 2012 Speaker Series

Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise Fall...

Bruce Piasecki is the author of Nature Society’s Book of the Year, In Search of Environmental Excellence: Moving Beyond the Blame as well as New York Times,...

Sage Hall  
Travulgar Square: Ben Nicholson Drawing, 1976-77

Travulgar Square: Ben Nicholson Drawing, 1976-77

Exhibit / College of Architecture, Art and Planning

Travulgar Square began its life in 1975, at a time when London was suffering a hangover from the 1960s and the stark realization that the post WWII Welfare...

Milstein Hall  
Fusion Week at Trillium 365

Fusion Week at Trillium 365

Food/Catering / Cornell Dining

Mix it up with Trillium's Seasonal 365 as we let our chef run wild and combine different cultural cuisines in new and exciting ways! We'll have dishes like...

Trillium  
Richard Meier: Artistic Conscience

Richard Meier: Artistic Conscience

Exhibit / College of Architecture, Art and Planning

Richard Meier: Artistic Conscience explores the relationship between art and architecture as seen through the artistic conscience of Cornell alumnus and...

Sibley Hall  
Terra Nova

Terra Nova 8:00am

Exhibit / Cornell University Library, Mann Library

Don’t miss Terra Nova—the new exhibit in the Mann Gallery. Photographer Thibault Roland’s elegant, evocative photographs capture Newfoundland’s desolate...

Mann Library  
Collecting Imagination: Treasures from the Walker Library of the History of Human Imagination

Collecting Imagination: Treasures from the... 9:00am

Exhibit / Cornell University Library

Through a remarkable array of rare books, manuscripts, and artifacts from the collection of Jay ('77) and Eileen ('76, '78) Walker, this exhibition showcases...

Kroch Library  
Bayesian Inference

Bayesian Inference 9:30am

Class/ Workshop / Cornell Statistical Consulting Unit

This two-part workshop will provide an overview of the Bayesian approach to statistical inference. Topics will include the choice of prior distribution,...

Mann Library  
25th Annual ILR Career Fair

25th Annual ILR Career Fair 10:00am

Career / ILR School

Don't miss this great event! Representatives from a variety of employers visit campus to discuss opportunities, especially those seeking full-time employment...

Statler Hotel  
Illuminated: The Art of Sacred Books

Illuminated: The Art of Sacred Books 10:00am

Exhibit / Johnson Museum of Art

Organized by the Rubin Museum of Art and cocurated by Agniezska Helman-Wazny (a former visiting scholar at Cornell), this exhibition explores the aesthetic...

Johnson Museum of Art  
Cinemania: Harun Farocki and Holly Zausner

Cinemania: Harun Farocki and Holly Zausner 10:00am

Exhibit / Johnson Museum of Art

"Cinemania" turns the gallery into a laboratory for film, much like an editing room, where individual shots are closely examined before being assembled into...

Johnson Museum of Art  
Mirror of the City: The Printed View in Italy and Beyond, 1450-1940

Mirror of the City: The Printed View in Italy... 10:00am

Exhibit / Johnson Museum of Art

This exhibition of prints, drawings, and books aims to assert the crucial role of the repeatable image in developing the Western concept of the city. It...

Johnson Museum of Art  
Harry Bertoia: Sound and Vision

Harry Bertoia: Sound and Vision 10:00am

Johnson Museum of Art

Born Arieto Bertoia in Italy, Harry Bertoia (1915–1978) emigrated to the United States with as a teenager and became a prolific sculptor, printmaker, and...

Johnson Museum of Art  
Ken Knappenberger seminar:  Excited State Dynamics and Optical Properties of Nanoparticle Networks

Ken Knappenberger seminar: Excited State... 11:15am

Seminar / Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Chemistry seminar hosted by Poul Petersen. Seminar title: Excited State Dynamics and Optical Properties of Nanoparticle Networks

Baker Lab  
Detecting protein-nucleic acid interactions in the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae

Detecting protein-nucleic acid interactions in... 12:20pm

Seminar / Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology

Detecting protein-nucleic acid interactions in the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae

Cornell Central Campus  
CU Music: Midday Music for Organ 10/17

CU Music: Midday Music for Organ 10/17 12:30pm

Cultural / Department of Music

Midday Music for Organ: Annette Richards and David Yearsley present “Music for Four Hands and Four Feet.” NOTE: the location has been changed to Anabel...

Anabel Taylor Hall  
LEPP Particle Theory

LEPP Particle Theory 2:00pm

Seminar / Physics, LEPP

Jure Zupan, Cincinnati University. Bounds on Annual ModulationSignal in Dark Matter Direct Detection. I will show constraints on the annual modulation...

Physical Sciences Building  
Cornell Club of Northeastern Ohio - Energy Alliance Speaker Series: Robert Thomas

Cornell Club of Northeastern Ohio - Energy... 2:00pm

Alumni

Energy Alliance Speaker Series: Robert Thomas, Cornell UniversityOctober 17, 2012 from 2 pm to 3 pmLocation: Case Western Reserve UniversityStreet: Nord 310,...

Cleveland, OH  
Finding Images and Visual Media

Finding Images and Visual Media 2:00pm

Class/ Workshop / Cornell University Library, Olin Library, Uris Library, Graduate School

An introduction to finding and using images and visual media from Cornell’s digital image collections and other resources. We will survey Flickr, image...

Uris Library  
TWT: Moving the Lecture Outside of the Classroom

TWT: Moving the Lecture Outside of the Classroom 3:00pm

Seminar / Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE)

Incorporating activities during class-time requires removing content. This seminar describes strategies and tools that allow instructors to provide content...

ILR Conference Center  
CALS Study Abroad 101

CALS Study Abroad 101 3:30pm

Meeting / College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

These regularly occurring meetings cover factors to consider when selecting a program, the study abroad application and approval process, and other important...

170 Roberts Hall  
"Geoneutrinos and the Composition of the Earth"

"Geoneutrinos and the Composition of the Earth" 3:30pm

Seminar / Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, College of Engineering

EAS Fall Seminar given by Prof. William McDonough from the University of Maryland. Refreshments will be served at 3:00pm in the Snee Hall Atrium.

Snee Hall  
Biophysics Colloquium - Rewiring of metabolism in the development of cancer

Biophysics Colloquium - Rewiring of metabolism... 4:00pm

Seminar / LASSP

Weekly colloquium in biophysics presented by Jason Locasale. Abstract-- This topic focuses on the role glucose metabolism in cancer biology. A common theme...

Clark Hall  
Confronting the “New” American Dilemma: Underrepresented Minorities in STEM

Confronting the “New” American Dilemma:... 4:00pm

Lecture / College of Engineering

Among the most anxiety-inducing questions among government, business, and education leaders is how to maintain American competitiveness in the global...

Biotechnology Building  
PhD Open House: Johnson

PhD Open House: Johnson 4:15pm

Special Event / Johnson Graduate School of Management

Meet Johnson faculty and current PhD students to learn more about obtaining your PhD at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Sage Hall  
Anne-Emmanuelle Berger, "Paradoxes of Visibility: Politics of Identity and the Spectacles of Gender"

Anne-Emmanuelle Berger, "Paradoxes of... 4:30pm

Lecture / Romance Studies

Director of the Centre de Recherches en Etudes Féminines of Paris VIII University and Adjunct Professor of French Literature at Cornell, Berger's research...

Kroch Library  
Enterprise Engineering Seminar

Enterprise Engineering Seminar 4:30pm

Lecture, Seminar / College of Engineering

General Motors is transforming itself across many dimensions today, and GM's information technology (IT) group is a key supported of the transformation, as...

B17 Upson  
Mercedes García-Arenal, "Forgeries, Sacred History, and Religious Minorities in Spain: The Secret Story of Miguel de Luna"

Mercedes García-Arenal, "Forgeries, Sacred... 4:30pm

Lecture / Romance Studies

Mercedes García-Arenal is Research Professor at CCHS-CSIC in Madrid, and a renowned Spanish historian of the Moriscos and of the relations between Islam and...

A. D. White House  
Science and Literature through the Centuries: A Panel Discussion

Science and Literature through the Centuries: A... 4:30pm

Panel Discussion

Featuring: Anindita Banerjee Associate Professor of Comparative Literature Elisha Cohn Assistant Professor of English Jenny Mann Assistant Professor of...

Goldwin Smith Hall  
Lecture and Book Signing with Cliff DuRand

Lecture and Book Signing with Cliff DuRand 4:30pm

Author Appearance

This even it made possible by the Latin American Studies Program. Please join us in welcoming Cliff DuRand, Research Associate at the Center for Global...

TCornell Store  
Veterinary Senior Seminars

Veterinary Senior Seminars 4:30pm

Seminar / Veterinary College

Order of seminars: Laura Pollok - "Pacemaker Implantation to Treat Atrial Standstill in a Mastiff" Brian Goff - "Functional Ectopic Thyroid Carcinoma in a...

Veterinary College  
Guide to Graduate School

Guide to Graduate School 4:45pm

Panel Discussion / Latino Studies Program

La Asociación Latina General Body Meeting presents: Guide to Graduate School Come out and engage in discussion with a Graduate student panel representing...

 
Election 2012: A Pollster’s View of the Electorate, the Parties, and the Candidates

Election 2012: A Pollster’s View of the... 4:45pm

Special Event

Doug Usher is a Washington based pollster, an expert on U.S. elections, and a Cornell alumnus with a PhD from the Government Department. He founded the...

Malott Hall  
GET SET: Getting Started with Online and Blended Course Design

GET SET: Getting Started with Online and... 4:45pm

Conference/Workshop / Center for Teaching Excellence (CTE)

GET SET: Workshop Series for Graduate Students, Future Educators, and Teaching Assistants pursuing Scholarship and Excellence in Teaching Curious about...

Plant Sciences Building  
Richard Meier Lecture

Richard Meier Lecture 5:15pm

Lecture / College of Architecture, Art and Planning, Architecture

Richard Meier (B.Arch. ’56) received his architectural training at Cornell University and established his own office in New York City in 1963. Since that...

Milstein Hall  
Oktoberfest Dinner

Oktoberfest Dinner 5:30pm

Food/Catering / Cornell Dining

Join us at RPME for an Oktoberfest Dinner featuring a menu of Bratwurst, sausage with caramelized onions, vegetable strudel, hot potato salad, German potato...

Robert Purcell Community Center  
Oriental Zinck's Night 2012 in Singapore

Oriental Zinck's Night 2012 in Singapore 6:30pm

Alumni

It's that time of the year again where we celebrate all things Big Red! This year, come by after office hours to chill by the Singapore riverside with fellow...

Singapore, Singapore  
Cornell Club of Rockland County: Haverstraw Water Supply Project - Desalination Plant Tour

Cornell Club of Rockland County: Haverstraw... 7:00pm

Alumni

The Cornell Club of Rockland County: Haverstraw Water Supply Project - Desalination Plant TourThe Cornell Club of Rockland County cordially invites all...

West Haverstraw, NY  
Messenger Lecture Series:  Lecture 2:  "Translating Poetry"

Messenger Lecture Series: Lecture 2: ... 7:00pm

A. E. Stallings, Poet, Translator Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Goldwin Smith Hall  
Cornell Club of Los Angeles - Harvest Dinner and Wine Pairing Scholarship Event

Cornell Club of Los Angeles - Harvest Dinner... 7:00pm

Alumni

EAT, DRINK, PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS!How can you simultaneously have a wonderful meal, meet great new Cornellians and help provide much-needed scholarships for...

Manhattan Beach, CA  
Manufactured Landscapes

Manufactured Landscapes 7:15pm

Film / Cornell Cinema, Sustainability

Ithaca Premiere! 2006 > Canada > Directed by Jennifer Baichwal With Edward Burtynsky The film "begins as a portrait of acclaimed Canadian photographer Edward...

 
Free Self-Defense Class

Free Self-Defense Class 7:30pm

Class/ Workshop

Move and speak more confidently….protect your body and mind. All genders, sizes, ages, and abilities welcome! Held every Wednesday for the entire semester....

Willard Straight Hall  
The Bethe Lectures - Exploring the Universe from the South Pole

The Bethe Lectures - Exploring the Universe... 7:30pm

Seminar / Physics

The Bethe Lectures, John Carlstrom, University of Chicago. Abstract: Our quest to understand the origin, evolution and make-up of the Universe has...

Rockefeller Hall  

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