His lecture, “Why War Will Fail in Afghanistan and Why We Need a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty,” is free and open to the public.

Volk is executive secretary for Friends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL), and has more than three decades of experience working for peace and social justice. He has lobbied Congress to support peaceful prevention of deadly conflict, nuclear disarmament, peace in Iraq, and many other issues.

Volk is past chair and current member of the Steering Committee of the U.S. Campaign to Ban Landmines (USCBL). He is a board member of Africa Action and The Justice Project (a veterans’ organization), and also serves on the Corporation Committee of Haverford College and on the Wilmington College Board of Trustees.

Prior to joining FCNL in 1990, Volk worked 18 years for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) and served as its National Secretary for Peace Education from 1982 to 1990.

Volk’s lecture is sponsored by the Cornell Democrats and the Cornell College Chaplain.

In addition to Darity, a number of Cornell students will perform at the event. Freeman and the Staceys (Zach Freeman, and Jordan and Julian Stacey), Ariel Harris and Neisha Croffitt, Heather Pavlu, and Julio “Kid Supreme” Miramontes will offer artistic performances ranging from musical selections to poetry to installation graffiti.

Non-Cornellian acts will include The Original Man, Young Ezzy, and DJ ISE.

A dance party hosted by DJ ISE will take place after the show. “Rock the Box” is sponsored by Intercultural Life and KRNL.

Music Mondays concerts are at 7:30 p.m. in King Chapel on the Cornell campus. General admission is $10 at the door and $5 for students. Admission is free to Cornell students, faculty, staff, emeriti faculty, and retired staff, and to Purple Pass holders.

A preview of the kind of high-energy Latin jazz Tiempo Libre will bring to King Chapel can be seen on “Dancing with the Stars” on Tuesday, Oct. 27, where the band will perform “Tu Conga Bach” from their latest album “Bach in Havana,” a fusion of Bach and Afro-Cuban rhythms.

The Miami-based Tiempo Libre hails originally from Cuba, where they were classically trained at La ENA, Cuba’s premiere conservatory. Twice-nominated for a Grammy, Tiempo Libre mixes jazz, classical works, and the musical traditions of Cuba to create a group that was named “Best Latin Band 2008” by the Miami New Times.

For more information on Tiempo Libre, visit their Web site.

The rest of the 2009-10 Music Mondays schedule is:

Monday, Feb.  8, 2010
Quink, five-member Dutch a cappella vocal ensemble

Monday, March 8, 2010
The all-female Moscow String Quartet

Admission is free and open to the public.

Phil and Jan Sultz live and work in Dennysville, Maine. They moved to Maine in 1990 after raising two daughters and teaching studio art at Webster University, St. Louis, from 1966 to 1989.

Phil Sultz studied at the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Albright Art School in Buffalo, N.Y., where he studied with Charles Burchfield. In 1958 he began teaching at the Kansas City Art Institute and School of Design before taking leave to enroll in the Accademia De Bella Arte in Rome. In the following decades he taught at the Rhode Island School of Design and at Webster University, St. Louis, where he is professor emeritus. He received a National Endowment for the Arts grant in painting in 1975, and in 1976, was included in a bicentennial exhibition in New York titled “Forty Years of American Collage” at Buecker and Harpsichords Gallery.  He has exhibited extensively in the United States and internationally and is represented in New York by the Allan Stone Gallery.

Jan Sultz initiated and developed the ceramics program at the Kansas City Art Institute in the late 1950s, and later at Webster University, St. Louis, where she taught for 24 years. Since leaving teaching she has continued to make stoneware ceramics at her studio in Maine.

She began her career in art under the tutelage of Warren Robinson at Wagner College, Staten Island, N.Y., culminating in an early exhibit of paintings at Contemporary Arts Gallery in New York City. Her direction toward clay forms developed later as a graduate student at Cranbrook Academy of Art, under the influence of Maija Grotell. Jan’s work has been shown in numerous venues including A. J. Bueche Fine Art, Northeast Harbor; Bates College, Lewiston, Maine; Allan Stone Gallery, New York City; and Lill Street Gallery, Chicago.

Jeff Lewis serves as professor of painting and drawing at Auburn University. He received his master of fine arts and master of arts at the University of Iowa and his bachelor of arts at SUNY Brockport, N.Y. Other teaching experience includes positions at Dartmouth College and Cornell University, as well as guest lecturing/workshops at Robert Wesleyan College, American University, Mississippi State University, The American School, Surrey, England, and The University of Iowa. His encaustic paintings and silverpoint drawings have been exhibited in galleries and museums nationally and internationally, in public and corporate collections, as well as private collections in Great Britain, Italy, Scandinavia, and the United States.

This exhibition is made possible through a generous endowment from the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. Gallery hours are Monday–Friday 9 a.m.-4 p.m., and Sundays 2-4 p.m.

For more information contact: scoleman@cornellcollege.edu or call 319-895-4491.

Saar will deliver the lecture “Whither, Hither and Yon” in the Keyes Art History Classroom, room 222. The lecture is free and open to the public.

This distinguished artist lecture is made possible through the generosity of the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.  Admission is free and open to the public.

Saar’s sculptures, mostly carved of wood and covered with copper, make use of found materials from the street. At first this was all she could afford, but now she does it as a way of recycling, as well as for the history it brings.

“One piece (of ceiling tin) I really adored came out of a phone booth across from Madison Square Garden,” she told artworsmagazine.com. “There were layers and layers of paint, and where some had chipped off you could see phone numbers–really cryptic because they didn’t look like contemporary phone numbers. I love to think about the conversations that were had in that phone booth.”

Her work combines artistic skill with multicultural references, revealing empathy for the harshness of life and a passion for the mythic.

Saar was born in 1956 and grew up in Laurel Canyon, Ca. She sees her upbringing as rural and her understanding and love of nature are rooted in that experience. At Scripps College, she studied with Dr. Samella Lewis, a noted scholar in the field of African and Caribbean Art. Having taken more art history courses than studio classes, she graduated with a thesis on Southern African American Folk Art. Saar did graduate work at Otis-Parsons Institute.

The reading will be held in Hedges Conference Room in The Commons. It is free and open to the public.

Prineas is an Iowa City-based writer whose Magic Thief young adult novels have been nominated for numerous awards. Recently, The Magic Thief was named an E.B. White honor book. A third book in the critically-acclaimed trilogy is in the works.

Prineas is visiting Cornell as a Distinguished Visiting Fiction Writer teaching a seminar titled “The Protagonist Must Protag: The Intersection of Plot and Character in Children’s Literature.”

For more information on Prineas, visit her Web site or the Official Magic Thief Web page.

By motorcycle.

Winokur, who has been a motorcycle safety instructor for almost 20 years, drove over 17 hours from his home in Bethesda, Md., to Mount Vernon by way of Iowa City in just two days.

“It’s something I’ve always wanted to do. I was afraid if I waited for my next reunion, it wouldn’t happen,” said Winokur.

He also said he’s traveled quite a bit on his motorcycle – a BMW R1200RT –  lately, passing through nearly every state between New York and Georgia and as far west as Iowa. He said this drive was particularly nippy, as temperatures dropped as low as the 40s through river valleys in the Appalachian Mountains. Nothing a full set of heated gloves, a heated jacket, and heated seats couldn’t take care of.

Winokur is in town for the 2009 Cornell College Homecoming: Welcome to the Hilltop.

Bynum is the author of Madeleine is Sleeping, a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize. She is a graduate of the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop and teaches writing and literature at the University of California, San Diego. Her newest novel, Ms. Hempel Chronicles, was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award.

Bynum’s visit to Cornell is part of the Visiting Writer Series sponsored by Cornell’s English department.

For more information on Bynum, visit her Web site.

That’s the question Whitewell, Tenn., students featured in the documentary Paper Clips set out to answer during a classroom project that started in 1998 as a way to show the immensity of life lost during the Holocaust.

Linda Hooper, principal of Whitewell Middle School, and two of her students will visit Cornell College on Oct. 29 at 7 p.m. in Kimmel theatre. They will present the results of the project, talk about the documentary, and speak on the impact this Holocaust project had on their school, their town, and others.

The event is free and open to the public.

Hooper created the project 11 years ago out of her desire to help students open their eyes to the diversity of the world beyond their insulated valley. The project grew as more and more paper clips were sent in until, eventually, 11 million paper clips were collected and housed in a donated World War II railcar that still sits at the school

Paper Clips documented not only the project, but the impact it had on the students’ understandings of diversity and on survivors who visited the memorial and told their stories. The documentary will be shown in the Ratt on Oct. 26, 27, and 28, at a time to be determined.

The Paper Clip Project presentation is part of an annual series of performances and lectures funded by a gift from alumnus Richard Williams ’63 and his wife, Marlene. The series typically sponsors one lecture and one performance each year.

For more information, visit paperclipsmovie.com.

Cornell’s homecoming celebrates the reunion classes of 1959, 1964, 1969, 1974, 1979, 1984, 1989, 1994, 1999, and 2004. Events begin Friday, Oct. 9, and include a pep rally and fireworks in Ash Park, starting at 9 p.m.

Three alumni will be honored at convocation in King Chapel at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 10. Stephen Grummon, a 1969 graduate, will receive the Distinguished Achievement Award for his notable career  in foreign affairs. Jerry Ringer, class of 1959 and trustee, and Elizabeth Hoyer Beeman, class agent for the class of 1969, will receive the Leadership and Service Award for their many years of service to the college.

Also being recognized during Homecoming is Dyan Smith, wife of John Smith, Class of 1971 and chair of the Cornell Board of Trustees, who will receive Honorary Alumni status Friday during the Alumni Board Luncheon.

New to the slate of events this year is a 5k run Saturday morning beginning at Ash Park at 8 a.m. Registration starts at 7 a.m.

Following the convocation, there will be an open house at the Paul K. Scott Alumni Center at Rood House from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Also on Saturday, Cornell Professor Emeritus of English and Poet-in-Residence Robert Dana will hold a book signing on the Orange Carpet in The Commons from 11 a.m.-noon.  There will be a Homecoming Studio Art Faculty Show reception from 3-5 p.m. in Peter Paul Luce Gallery, McWethy Hall on Saturday. At 2:30 p.m. on Saturday the Faculty Blockbuster Lecture for the One Book, One Campus, One Community Book The Zookeeper’s Wife will be held in Hedges Lounge in the Commons.

Other special activities include the Cornell Athletics Hall of Fame  Induction Ceremony Saturday at 8 a.m.; a memorial for Ed Rogers Saturday at 9 a.m. in Allee Chapel; historic campus tours with student re-enactors at 3:30 p.m. Friday and 1:30 p.m. Saturday, and the homecoming football game against Luther, kicking off at 1 p.m. in Ash Park.

Music Mondays concerts are at 7:30 p.m. in King Chapel on the Cornell campus. General admission is $10 at the door and $5 for students. Admission is free to Cornell students, faculty, staff, emeriti faculty, and retired staff, and to Purple Pass holders.

The program at Cornell includes more traditional works by Praetorius, Scarlatti, Chopin, Villa-Lobos, Prokofiev,  and Grieg, as well as “Linus and Lucy” by Vince Guaraldi, “Weird Fishes/Arpeggi” by Radiohead, and the traditional Irish piece “The Road to Lisdoonvarna.”

Borrowing from both the past and present, the Georgia Guitar Quartet draws inspiration from a wide variety of influences, from classical masters to experimentalists to contemporary rock icons. The Quartet has been featured on American Public Media’s “Performance Today” and has released four critically acclaimed recordings, the most recent consisting exclusively of music composed by the Georgia Guitar Quartet.

The rest of the 2009-10 Music Mondays schedule is:

Monday, Nov.  2, 2009
Tiempo Libre, a Cubin-Latin group

Monday, Feb.  8, 2010
Quink, five-member Dutch a cappella vocal ensemble

Monday, March 8, 2010
The all-female Moscow String Quartet

Ackerman will participate in a range of activities open to the community, starting with the Opening Convocation Lecture in King Chapel at 11 a.m.

The author will also hold an evening reading in Hedges Conference Room at 7:30 p.m., followed by a reception and book signing at 8:30 p.m. in Shaw Lounge, both in the Commons. All three events are free and open to the public.

The Zookeeper’s Wife documents the true story of Warsaw zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski, who in the aftermath of Germany’s invasion of Poland saved the lives of hundreds of Jewish citizens. In 2008 it received the Orion Book Award for being “a work of art, an act of conscientious objection to the destruction of the world, and an affirmation of hope and human decency.”

“One Book, One Campus, One Community” is a program founded with the goal of creating opportunities for life-long learners to come together to talk about a fantastic book. Last year’s selection was The Horizontal World: Growing Up Wild in the Middle of Nowhere by Debra Marquart.

Ackerman has been consistently recognized for her prose. She received an honorary doctorate of literature from Kenyon College, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the John Burroughs Nature Award, and the Lavan Poetry Prize. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Smithsonian, Parade, The New Yorker, National Geographic, and many other journals. She received an M.A., M.F.A. and Ph.D. from Cornell University.

The event will start at 7 p.m. in Hedges Conference Room and is free and open to the public.

Novelist and magazine writer Maxine Case hails from South Africa where she is a senior writer for the non-profit Cape Town Partnership. Her first novel, All We Have Left Unsaid, won the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best First Book in Africa, and, jointly, the Herman Charles Bosman Award. She is a contributor to Real Simple, Reader’s Digest and O Magazine, among other publications.

Croatian poet and essayist Milos Djurdjevic is the editor of the Croatian domain at Poetry International Web, a fellow at the Ledig House in New York and the Civitiella Ranieri Center in Italy, and the author of three published volumes of poetry. DJurdjevic is also the Croatian translator of a wide range of contemporary American poetry.

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.

Peterson is the founder of Angelic Organics, one of the largest Community Supported Agriculture farms in the United States, a centerpiece of the modern organic farming movement.

The Real Dirt on Famer John has been widely lauded for its portrayal of a unique family farm in rural Illinois run by Peterson. The documentary follows the wild changes of the farm over several decades, changes that mirrored both the times and the farming booms and busts as the Peterson family farm first becomes a commune for artists, collapses in the ‘80s, and eventually becomes Angelic Organics.

More information on organic farming, Angelic Organics, and The Real Dirt on Farmer John can be found at angelicorganics.com.

The exhibition is free and open to the public.

Additionally, a Homecoming reception will be held Saturday, Oct. 10, 3-5 p.m.

Featured artists include Doug Hanson, Sandy Dyas, Tony Plaut, Susan Coleman and Maria Schutt, with works in a variety of media, including: ceramics, assemblage, drawing, painting, photography and installation art.

Doug Hanson’s functional clay pieces meld Western and Eastern influences to create objects both beautiful and useful. Among his most stunning works are his large-scale platters, which incorporate form and color reminiscent of water, earth and sky.

Sandy Dyas uses collage and juxtaposition to form hybrid thematic relationships, incorporating both traditional and digital photographic techniques in a monumental two- dimensional installation spanning two walls.

Tony Plaut’s assemblages and drawings employ diverse materials and fabrication processes, with thematic strands that point to the very act of perception, prompting the viewer to “look and listen.”

Sue Coleman’s intimate landscapes are based on her immediate environment, and draw from an awareness of nature as a living presence. Her works for this exhibition are primarily in pastel, but featured are a select group of new oils on canvas.

Maria Schutt’s current work is inspired by puppetry and informed by the observation of a young child, RJ, as he plays without interruption. Using drawing and assemblage, the figures are crafted in a posture of doing, implying the potential for action, but the nature of the action is not revealed.

This exhibition is made possible through a generous endowment from the Henry Luce Foundation, Inc. Gallery hours are Monday – Friday: 9 a.m. – 4 p.m., Sundays: 2 – 4 p.m.

Above: Sandy Dyas, Elvis is the Light, digital photograph

Music Mondays concerts are at 7:30 p.m. in King Chapel on the Cornell campus. General admission is $10 at the door and $5 for students. Admission is free to Cornell students, faculty, staff, emeriti faculty, and retired staff, and to Purple Pass holders.

Other groups performing this season include Tiempo Libre, a two-time Grammy nominated Latin group, Quink, a Dutch vocal ensemble, and the Moscow String Quartet.

The schedule for the 2009-10 season is:

Monday, October 12, 2009
Georgia Guitar Quartet

Monday, November 2, 2009
Tiempo Libre

Monday, February 8, 2010
Quink

Monday, March 8, 2010
Moscow String Quartet

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Phil Lucas, professor of history, will give the faculty address.

David Kugler of Gering, Neb., who is graduating with a double major in psychology and sociology, will be the senior class speaker.

Saturday events begin at 9 a.m. with a baccalaureate service in King Chapel. Seniors’ words of gratitude for family, friends and mentors will be read at the service. The Rev. Catherine Quehl-Engel, college chaplain, will deliver the sermon.

Cornell’s Delta of Iowa chapter of Phi Beta Kappa will hold a reception at 10:30 a.m. in Cole Library. Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest and most widely respected academic honor society in the United States. There are 270 chapters in the United States, including seven in Iowa.

After a buffet luncheon from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Cornell seniors, faculty and administrators will assemble at 12:45 p.m. in the Multi-Sport Center for the traditional academic procession that begins the 1:30 p.m. commencement ceremony. The public is invited.

For complete information, visit our Graduation Information page.

This conference provided a unique opportunity for undergraduates from across the state of Iowa to present their research to peers, parents, and professors and to discuss and defend their work in an academic atmosphere. Papers this year were divided into several topics, including immigration and discrimination, gender and race, social policy, religion, and issues of mind and body.

A total of 23 students presented papers at the ISA conference. Four awards for student papers are presented to participants: the best paper submitted by a junior or senior, the best paper submitted by a first or second-year student, the best paper on a criminal justice topic, and the best paper integrating theory and research.

The winner of the Manfred Kuhn Award for best paper submitted by a junior or senior was Chris Davids of Cornell College for his paper, “Filling the Gap: An Examination of Body Dissatisfaction of Differences of Gay, Bisexual, and Heterosexual Men.”

The winner of the Steve Wieting Award for the paper best combining theory and research was Natalie Turner of the University of Northern Iowa for her paper, “Feminism Hits the Mainstream: Gender, Sexuality, and Comic Book Heroes.”

The winner of the Mary Alice Ericson Award for the best freshman-sophomore paper was Annie Schneider of Cornell College for her paper. “Reimagining South Africa: Feminist Theology and Violence Against Women.”

The winner of the Ward Reynoldson Award for the best paper on a criminal justice topic was Sarah Wittig Galgano of University of Iowa for her paper, Barriers in Reintegration: An Audit Study of Impact of Race and Offender Status on Employment Opportunities for Women.”

The conference included a keynote address by Tanya Golash-Boza of the University of Kansas. In her address entitled, “Age of Exile: Racism and Mass Deportation in the 21st Century” Professor Golash-Boza argues that the United States is currently in an era of mass deportation. Rates of deportation – nearly 1000 people per day – are at their highest point in history. Further, she examines the role that racism in immigration and law enforcement plays in immigration policy and deportation practices.

The Sociology Department at Cornell College wishes to thank Richard Peterson of Cornell College, Kenneth Sanchagrin of the University of Iowa, and Megan Tesene, Justin Stoll, and
Gayle Rhineberger-Dunn of the University of Northern Iowa for serving as judges in the ISA paper competition this year. We are also grateful to Kent McClelland, Char Kunkel, and Mary Beth Stalp for their advice on organizing the meeting, to Cornell student organizers Rebecca Sullens, Candice Kociemba, and David Kugler for their logistical work, and to the organizations who helped fund this conference including the MSS, the Berry Center, and LACE among others.

The lecture, titled “Nudging our Way Through the Financial Crisis,” is free and open to the public.

Thaler is a professor of behavioral science and economics at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business where he is a pioneer in the fields of behavioral economics and finance. He is a prolific author and has penned numerous works, including Nudge (with Cass Sunstein), The Winner’s Curse, and Quasi Rational Economics and was the editor of Advances in Behavioral Finance, Volumes 1 and 2. He also wrote a series of articles in the Journal of Economics Perspectives called “Anomalies.”

Thaler is the Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, and Director of the Center for Decision Research, Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago. He previously taught at Cornell University and MIT.

This is the economist’s second interaction with Cornell students. He previously met with Cornellians in a Nudge book group sponsored by The Berry Center for Economics, Business and Public Policy during a visit to the University of Chicago.

This is the fourth in the Roe Howard Freedom Lecture Series, after Amity Shlaes, Mark Steyn, and Dinesh D’Souza. Howard was a Mount Vernon native, 1917 Cornell graduate and recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross in World War I. He was killed in action in France in 1918. The lecture series is funded through the generosity of the Riesen Foundation and Cornell trustee and alumnus Dean Riesen and alumna Barbara Hull Riesen.

The concert, which is free to the public, will open with “African Celebration” for women’s chorus. The featured men’s chorus piece is Pablo Casals’ “O vos omnes” on the biblical lamentations of Jeremiah.

Chamber Singers will present two choruses from Handel’s Messiah, accompanied by pianist Joyce Strabala. Other selections include pieces by Fauré, Britten, and Haydn, and a vocal jazz arrangement of “Fields of Gold” by Sting.

Concert Choir selections include Erb’s “Shenandoah,” Poulenc’s “Exultate Deo,” and the dramatic narrative “Saul” on the conversion of St. Paul, featuring college organist Lynda Hakken and narrator Natalie Kropf, a sophomore from Wilton, Conn. The concert will close with African-American composer William Dawson’s “Ezekiel Saw de Wheel,” with tenor soloist Alexander LeFebvre, a sophomore from Caledonia, Minn.

The evening will celebrate Dana’s contributions to the world of poetry as a Cornell professor and Poet-in-Residence, as Iowa Poet Laureate, and as a distinguished author.

Dana will read a selection of poems from his new book, The Other, as well as earlier works.

A reception and book signing will follow in the Berry Lobby.

In 1954, at the age of 25, Robert Dana arrived on campus as the youngest ever tenure-track faculty member. He taught English at Cornell for the next 40 years, inspiring generations of young Cornellians.

Dana received National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships for Poetry in 1985 and 1993 and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award for Poetry in 1989. He is the author of 10 collections of poetry and two works of literary nonfiction, and the founding editor of the revived North American Review. His poems have appeared in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Poetry, The Sewanee Review, The New York Times, The American Poetry Review, Poetry Now, The New England Review, Mother Jones, The Georgia Review, and others. Two of his poems were memorialized in 2008 on monuments in Des Moines and Coralville.

Dana served as distinguished visiting writer at five American universities and Stockholm University. He has remained prolific in retirement, serving two terms as Poet Laureate of Iowa and publishing four books of poetry, most recently The Other.

The man introducing Dana in the video is Tom Lynner ‘66, co-founder of the Des Moines National Poetry Festival.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Crisostomo is the subject of the PBS documentary Chicano!: Taking Back the Schools and the award-winning HBO movie Walkout, which depicts the events of 1968 when Crisostomo organized the largest high school student protest in American History. Thousands of students walked out of their classrooms in Los Angeles to protest racial inequality toward Chicanos.

Crisostomo is currently director of government and community relations for Occidental College in Los Angeles.

Cornell’s Organization for Latino Awareness is sponsoring Crisostomo’s talk as part of Chicano Week, a week celebrating and examining Chicano issues. Events include:

-Chicano issues poster session Monday, April 6, on The Orange Carpet

-A panel discussion Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. on the Orange Carpet

-A Public showing of Walkout, Wed., April 8 at 7 p.m. in the Ratt

For more information, contact the Office of Intercultural Life at 319-895-4484.

Jane Fortson, Ph.D., (above, left) will discuss “The Economic Consequences of HIV/AIDS” at 3 p.m. in Hedges Conference Room, The Commons. Erica Field, Ph.D., (above, right) will then deliver the lecture “Power of a Pill: Iodine Deficiency, Schooling Attainment, and Economic Development” in Ringer Recital Studio, Armstrong Hall.

The symposium is sponsored by The Berry Center for Economics, Business, and Public Policy.

Fortson is a Becker Center Fellow in Price Theory at the University of Chicago. She has previously presented at the XVII International AIDS Conference and the World Bank.

Field is an assistant professor of economics at Harvard University and has studied development economics, labor economics, economic demography, and health.

The Berry Center for Economics, Business, and Public Policy is the centerpiece of a distinctive academic program that provides students with exceptional training in applied economics and public policy, with a special emphasis on experiential learning. It seeks to teach students how economic analysis is applied to decision-making in business and the public sector. The objective is to enhance the ability of Cornell students to bridge the gap between theory and practice in their academic program. In doing so, Cornell produces first-rate liberal arts graduates who are well-prepared for graduate study or the workplace, ultimately embarking on successful careers in business and public policy. The Berry Center has previously hosted Nobel Laureate Robert Solow, Jesse Shapiro, Emily Oster, and Kevin Murphy, among others.

The traveling exhibit is part of the 50th Anniversary celebration of the ACM. The consortium sponsored the ACM Off-Campus Study Photo Contest, inviting students at ACM colleges to share the images and impressions they gathered from studying in locations around the world.

The traveling exhibit of the ten winning photos and a selection of honorable mention photos is being hosted by ACM campuses through April and will be shown at the ACM 50th Anniversary Student Symposium on Off-Campus Study in Chicago on April 17-18, 2009. The photos also can be viewed on the ACM website at www.acm.edu/photocontest.

Peterson received honorable mention for her photo titled “Shipwrecked!” The winning photos and a selection of honorable mention photos will be on display in the exhibit area in the Commons near Hedges at Cornell College from April 6 to 10, 2009.

The Grand Prize was awarded to Kevin Close of Carleton College for “A Long Car Ride,” a photo taken during his studies in Mongolia and simply described as “One student, one translator, and ten goats.” First, second, and third place prizes were awarded in three categories: people, places, and stories.

The contest judges were Will Pittinos, Web content coordinator at Lake Forest College, and Dave Amrein, director of the ACM Chicago Arts Program. The judges specifically looked for photos that captured a true liberal arts education – a unique, hands-on experience that allows students to step outside of the box and to do so experientially.

The winners in the 2008-09 ACM Off-Campus Study Photo Contest are:

Grand Prize
A Long Car Ride, Kevin Close, Carleton College

People
First place: Freedom, Christina Demenshina, Beloit College
Second place: Learning to Chew, Christopher Ruder, Beloit College
Third place: Drying Persimmons, Ting Ting Yang, St. Olaf College

Places
First place: Climbing the Perito Moreno Glacier, Anna Hainzea, Lawrence University
Second place: Aotearoa, Jen Milius, Knox College
Third place: Weißglas, Erin McBurney, Grinnell College

Stories
First place: Caught in Midair, Po Ling Pauline Chan, Knox College
Second place: Aventura en el fin del mundo (Adventure at the End of the World), Heather Kopec, Knox College
Third place: First Communion in Lourdes, Po Ling Pauline Chan, Knox College

Honorable Mention
Abandoned, Ben Barclay, Carleton College
Dusk, Sarah Diefendorf, Colorado College
Incognito, Tabitha Hrynick, Colorado College
Carnivale, Ellen Kokontis, Knox College
Bula Fiji!, Ashleigh Martinez, Lake Forest College
Rural Transportation, Jeannette Osterweil, Colorado College
Shipwrecked!, Myka Peterson, Cornell College
Stone Town Hopes, Kathleen Quigley, Monmouth College
Botas de hule y pies descalzos (Rubber Boots and Bare Feet), Karen Skadow, Monmouth College
The Spice of Life, Amelia Sternitzky, Ripon College

ACM, a consortium of academically excellent, independent liberal arts colleges, has been a pioneer in off-campus study, operating domestic and international programs since the early 1960s. The current ACM members are Beloit College, Carleton College, Coe College, Colorado College, Cornell College, Grinnell College, Knox College, Lake Forest College, Lawrence University, Macalester College, Monmouth College, Ripon College, and St. Olaf College.