Writer in exile Raza Rumi to speak on extremism in Pakistan

Journalist and author Raza Rumi, resident writer at Ithaca City of Asylum, fled Pakistan after an assassination attempt two years ago and will give a talk on campus April 5, "Pakistan's Battle Against Violent Extremism."

Playwright Vogel returns to campus for Ph.D.

Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatist Paula Vogel returns to campus April 12-13 for a conversation and concert reading of her most recent play, “Indecent,” and to receive her doctorate.

Things to Do, March 25-April 1, 2016

Events this week include a faculty art show at the Johnson Museum, a James Kennedy exhibit in Sibley Hall, and High Five Recognition Events for all Cornell employees in Ithaca, Geneva and New York City.

Mortua lingua discipulorum auxilio reviviscit*

In a new Foreign Language Across the Curriculum class with Michael Fontaine, associate professor of classics, students earn course credit while learning to converse in Latin.

Robert Morgan publishes new novel, poetry collection

Robert Morgan, the Kappa Alpha Professor of English in the College of Arts and Sciences, has a just-published novel, "Chasing the North Star", on the heels of a recent poetry collection, "Dark Energy."

NEH grant will preserve Afrika Bambaataa archive

A $260,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will help Cornell University Library digitize and make available the seminal hip-hop collection of Afrika Bambaataa.

Music department's curriculum playing a new tune

With the music department's new curriculum, students will now find a more flexible route through the program and an emphasis on improvisation and other techniques.

Author Ron Chernow discusses hip-hop musical 'Hamilton'

The best-selling author of "Alexander Hamilton" spoke to Weill Cornell Medicine students March 1 about his collaboration with Lin-Manuel Miranda on the wildly popular musical.

Add your voice to Klarman Hall time capsule

The College of Arts and Sciences hopes to capture life at Cornell today – especially the role of the humanities in our lives – as it assembles a time capsule to be buried May 26.