Noliwe Rooks on food justice and Michelle Obama

Noliwe Rooks, associate professor of Africana studies, talked about the availability and quality of food, who gets it and where it's found in an April 10 campus talk.

Things to Do, April 10-17

Events this week include a one-day exhibit of three historic Lincoln documents at Cornell; a concert exploring the Thirty Years’ War, and documentaries at Cornell Cinema and Cinemapolis.

Bird’s-eye view of NYC for Architecture, Art and Planning

The College of Architecture, Art and Planning’s New York City program has moved into a new space in the Standard Oil Building, a historic landmark overlooking lower Manhattan.

Film symposium will honor the late Robert Ascher April 17-18

A two-day film symposium will celebrate the late professor Robert Ascher’s contributions to visual anthropology, film and animation April 17-18. The event is free and open to the public.

Charter Day panelist preview: math whiz Steven Strogatz

Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, will speak on “Six Degrees of Separation” Sunday, April 26, 1-2:15 p.m. at Bailey Hall, as part of Charter Day.

Lighted clothing that flashes to beat of music will hit runway

These clothes soon may be all the rave: Fiber science and physics students have teamed to create fashionable “smart” garments with vivid, luminescent panels that pulse to music.

Marsalis, Xu Bing among new Professors-at-Large

Musician Wynton Marsalis, artist Xu Bing, philosopher Bruno Latour, political scholar Theda Skocpol and astrophysicist David Stevenson, Ph.D. ’76, are Cornell's newest A.D. White Professors-at-Large.

Social science, art to connect in New York City event

Internationally renowned social scientists from Cornell and other institutions are getting together with artists on April 18 for a "salon" convened by the Institute for the Social Sciences.

High fashion comes to the Hill April 11

Student fashion designers are sketching and making patterns, finding and fitting models, and cutting and sewing fabrics for the 31st Cornell Fashion Collective runway show, Saturday, April 11 at 8 p.m. in Barton Hall.