From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4@msn.com)
Date: Sat Nov 09 2002 - 05:40:34 PST
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Subject: Cornell News: Naturalist's Way lectures
Whale lecture by Roger Payne, with actress Lisa Harrow, and insect
lecture by May Berenbaum are open to public
FOR RELEASE: Nov. 7, 2002
Contact: Roger Segelken
Office: 607-255-9736
E-mail: hrs2@cornell.edu
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Two lectures at Cornell University, the first by
noted whale biologist Roger Payne, accompanied by his wife, the
actress Lisa Harrow, and the second by entomologist May Berenbaum,
will be open to the public, free of charge. The lectures are part of
the Cornell class, The Naturalist's Way.
o Guest lecturer Payne will speak on Nov. 18 at 4:30 p.m. in Call
Alumni Auditorium on "Listening to Whales: What Humanity Can Learn."
He will be assisted in the presentation by his wife, a noted actress
who has appeared with the Royal Shakespeare Company in England and
whose acclaimed films include "The Last Days of Chez Nous" and
"Sunday." After earning a Cornell Ph.D. in biology in 1961, Payne
traveled worldwide to document behavior and communication of whales.
He is the author of "Among Whales" and co-author of "The Whale
Watcher's Guide."
o Berenbaum, also a guest lecturer, will speak on Nov. 25 at 4 p.m.
in the Biotechnology Building's first-floor seminar room on the topic
"Gut Reactions: Cytochrome P450 Plant-Insect Interactions." Also a
Cornell biology Ph.D. (1980), Berenbaum studies chemical
communication between insects and their host plants and heads the
entomology department at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
She is better known outside scientific circles as the originator of
the Insect Fear Film Festival, an annual, semi-educational event that
screens commercial motion pictures involving insects
The Naturalist's Way course was developed and offered for the first
time this year by Thomas Eisner, Cornell's J. G. Schurman Professor
of Chemical Ecology. In addition to dealing with the art of
discovery, the course features presentations by eminent scientists
from Cornell and other institutions.
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http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Nov02/Naturalists_Lecs.hrs.html
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