Cornell CyberTower

If you haven't yet seen Cornell's "CyberTower", you're missing a marvelous way of both staying in touch with Cornell faculty and learning something new as well. CyberTower is Cornell Adult University's online program arm, offered as a free service to Cornell alumni, families, and friends. Its programs are produced by the techs at Cornell Information Technologies. It is easy, and features new offerings added each month. "Study Rooms" contain video-streamed lectures, links to specially selected Web sites, reading lists, and discussion boards with faculty and fellow CyberTower users. Twenty-six different ones are now available, with topics ranging from mastodons to wine appreciation. "Forums" (18 are currently open), are informal video-streamed conversations with leading faculty members. Topics presently range from the war in Iraq to human and primate child-rearing practices. "Discussion board" enable you to trade comments and questions with each month's featured guest. -- "Views and Reviews" (30 are currently open) are brief, unabashedly opinionated commentaries by faculty members on books, films, articles, and topics in the news, ranging from Jim Maas on power sleep to Joel Silbey on the Civil War.

If it's been a while since you've been back to Ithaca, log on to http://cybertower.cornell.edu , follow the registration instructions, and settle in for an enjoyable learning experience. For information about CAU's on-campus programs and study tours in the U.S. and abroad, link to the Web site, http://www.cau.cornell.edu