Events this week include 'The Martian' at Cornell Cinema, the Chorus and Glee Club's return from tour concert, new exhibits at the Johnson Museum and the People's State of the Union.
Faculty in Romance studies and comparative literature have moved into new offices in Klarman Hall; the new building for the humanities includes a 330-seat auditorium and a large glass atrium.
Through a grant from the National Historical Publications & Records Commission, 65 railroad collections held by Cornell Library’s Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives will go online.
“Black Lives Matter” is the theme of a community celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. Day Jan. 18 in Ithaca, and founders of the Black Lives Matter movement will come to Cornell Feb. 3 for the 2016 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture.
College of Arts and Sciences faculty and graduate students are invited to submit proposals to digitize Cornell collections by Jan. 31. more than two dozen faculty members place collections online.
Native American artist and Professor Emerita Kay WalkingStick has her first major solo retrospective at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
Emeritus Professor of Art Jack Squier, MFA '52, an accomplished sculptor and influential mentor to Cornell students over five decades, died Dec. 31 at his home in Florida.
Edgar Rosenberg, a literary scholar and friction writer and professor emeritus of English and comparative literature at Cornell, Dec. 19 in Cayuga Heights, New York, at the age of 90.
This year's Caplan Travel Fellowship winners are Christopher Erdman '17 and John Hall '17, who will each use their $4,000 award to study and conduct research in Italy.
