MOUNT VERNON — Nobel laureate Robert Solow, a major figure in macroeconomics and the field of economic growth, will deliver the keynote address Friday, Oct. 13, to launch Cornell College’s Center for Economics, Business, and Public Policy.

His lecture, “Low-Wage Work in High-Wage Countries,” is at 11 a.m. in King Chapel. Admission is free.

Solow is professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has been a professor of economics since 1949. He received the Nobel Prize in economics in 1987 for his theory of growth. His Cornell address will report the early results of his research on low-wage jobs in advanced economies and discuss the implications for public policy.

Solow earned bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Harvard. For a number of years he served as a board member of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and was board chairman for three years. He is past president of the American Economics Association and the Econometric Society, a member of the National Academy of Sciences, a Fellow of the British Academy and a former member of the National Science Board. He received the National Medal of Science in 2000.

His articles and books address the topics of economic growth, macroeconomics and the theory of unemployment. He is currently Foundation Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.

Cornell’s Center for Economics, Business, and Public Policy offers students experiential learning opportunities to complement and enrich their academic coursework in economics and business. Through an internship program, off-campus study program, visiting scholars and practitioners program, and summer study/research, students connect theory and practice, becoming better prepared for careers in business and the public sector.

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MOUNT VERNON — A poet from India and a novelist from Bangladesh will discuss their works and give readings Thursday, Oct. 5, at Cornell College for the Global Voices series of campus appearances by international writers.

The discussion is at 3:30 p.m. and the reading at 7 p.m., both in Shaw Lounge of The Commons. The events are open to the public and admission is free.

Among the most prolific of the new generation of Bengali-language poets, Srijato Bandyopadhyay has published eight poetry collections, including “Flying Jokers” (2004), which won two literary awards, and “The Story of Katiusha” (2006). His poems appear in numerous magazines in West Bengal. He lives in Kolkata, where he edits the literary journal Jaruri Abastha (State of Emergency).

Novelist, fiction writer and journalist Manju Sarkar has published 10 short story collections, most recently “Nirbachita Galpa” (2004). Among his 38 books, the novel “Abasvumi” (1994) won the Philips Literary Award as Best Novel in 1995. In 1998, he received the Bangla Academy Literary award for overall achievement in literature. He is an assistant editor of Daily Amar Desh, a leading newspaper in Bangladesh. His latest novel is “Plaban” (2006).

Global Voices presents periodic visits to Cornell by creative writers in residence at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. Since 1967, more than 1,000 writers from more than 115 countries have attended the IWP.

MOUNT VERNON — Three local artists will be part of the first exhibition of the school year in the Peter Paul Luce Gallery at Cornell College.

“Cornell Alumni Sculpture” features work by Elizabeth Rhoads-Read and Tom Newport of Cedar Rapids and David Rega of Mount Vernon. The exhibition runs Sept. 17 through Oct. 22 with a reception for the artists from 3:30 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 21, Cornell’s homecoming.

A fourth artist, alumna Toby Schreiber of Malibu, Calif., will be featured in a corresponding exhibition, “Classic Greek Attic Style Stoneware,” in the Cole Library third-floor gallery. She will have a book signing Oct. 21 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in King Chapel and deliver a lecture on “Athenian Vase Construction” at 2:30 p.m. in the Keyes Art History Classroom of McWethy Hall.

Rhoads-Read, a 1972 Cornell graduate, has experimented in several art mediums, including paper, used fabric and recycled materials. Nature inspires her work. Her work weaves varying texture and illusive light, interspersed with minute details, concentrating on the forcefulness of dark areas and the contrast between spaces

Newport, a 1977 graduate, creates fabricated stainless steel sculptures that are often outwardly abstract but closely linked to nature and reality. His work is inspired by experience in floral design, jewelry design and a general observation of the world around him.

Rega graduated in 1977, following art studies in Italy. He likes the contrasts that can be found in stone, the variations in color, the fossils, the naturally occurring cavities, fissures and textures that can change from rough and crumbling to a smooth bonelike finish. Working with stone is an exploration of these differences, searching to find the mysteries behind the surface. He works to enhance the contrasts, juxtaposing polished and rough elements, and accentuating the natural stone features to realize the character of the piece.

Schreiber is a 1946 Cornell graduate who has worked as an educator and in the curatorial department of the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu. Her research into the construction of ancient Greek vases has taken her to a number of museums both in the Americas and in Europe and eventually led to her book, “Athenian Vase Construction.” Her wheel-thrown, stoneware pieces use a fine-grained clay coated with an oxide, the designs made by graffito and excision.

Luce Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday.

MOUNT VERNON — Dava Sobel, an award-winning writer and former New York Times science reporter, will speak on “The Quest for Longitude” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 13, at Cornell College.

Her talk, for Cornell’s Anderson Science Lecture, is in Kimmel Theatre of Youngker Hall. Admission is free.

Sobel has authored “Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time,” “Galileo’s Daughter” and its sequel, “Letters to Father,” and “The Planets.” She has written for magazines including Audubon, Discover, Life and The New Yorker, has been a contributing editor to Harvard Magazine and Omni and has co-authored five books, including “Is Anyone Out There?” with astronomer Frank Drake.

She is now working on a stage play about 16th-century astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.

“Longitude” was translated into two dozen languages and became a national and international best seller after its 1995 original publication. The book won the Harold D. Vursell Memorial Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and “Book of the Year” in England.

“Galileo’s Daughter,” based on 124 surviving letters to Galileo from his eldest child, won the 1999 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for science and technology and was a finalist for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize in biography.

The PBS science program “Nova” produced television documentaries based on Sobel’s books, “Lost At Sea — The Search for Longitude” and “Galileo’s Battle for the Heavens,” with the latter winning an Emmy in the category of historical programming. Granada Films of England created “Longitude,” a drama starring Jeremy Irons and Michael Gambon, which aired on A&E as a four-hour made-for-TV movie. A “Nova” adaptation of “The Planets” is in production.

Sobel received the 2001 Individual Public Service Award from the National Science Board “for fostering awareness of science and technology among broad segments of the general public.” The Boston Museum of Science gave her its prestigious Bradford Washburn Award in 2001 for “outstanding contribution toward public understanding of science, appreciation of its fascination, and the vital role it plays in all our lives.” In October 2004, in London, she received the Harrison Medal from the Worshipful Company of Clockmakers, in recognition of her contribution to increasing awareness of the science of horology by the general public, through her writing and lecturing.

Sobel is a graduate of the Bronx High School of Science and the State University of New York at Binghamton.

The Anderson Science Lecture was established by the late Richmond Anderson and Cleo Holland Anderson, both Cornell graduates, in honor of their families. Richmond earned a medical degree at Northwestern University and had a nearly 30-year career in public health. Previous Anderson Lectures have been given by Dudley Herschbach of Harvard, Roald Hoffmann of Cornell University and William Lipscomb of Harvard, all Nobel laureates in chemistry; Jerald Schnoor of the University of Iowa’s department of civil and environmental engineering; and Victor Weisskopf of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology department of physics.

MOUNT VERNON — A Danish novelist and an Albanian poet will discuss their works and give readings Thursday, Sept. 14, to launch Cornell College’s Global Voices, a series of campus appearances by international writers.

The discussion is at 3:30 p.m. and the reading at 7:30 p.m., both in Shaw Lounge of The Commons. The events are open to the public and admission is free.

Mathilde Walter Clark lives in Copenhagen, where she is a columnist and television critic. Author of a novel, “Thorsten Madsen’s Ego,” and a collection of short stories, “Disorder of Things,” she was awarded the 2005 Discovery of the Year in Literature by Carlsbergfonden and a major grant in 2006 from the Danish Art Foundation.

Gentian Cocoli has published three collections of poetry, most recently “Human Soil.” He has translated several contemporary American poets and won a prize for his translation of Seamus Heaney. His “Circumference of Ash” was selected a Best Poetry Book of the Year in 2001 by the Ministry of Culture. Cocoli is founder of the literary journal Aleph Review and of the publishing house Aleph Publishing. He heads the culture and art department in Albania’s Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sports.

Global Voices will present periodic visits to Cornell by creative writers in residence at the University of Iowa’s International Writing Program. Since 1967, more than 1,000 writers from more than 115 countries have attended the IWP.