Three new faculty members who specialize in African-American literature will be joining the Department of English, in the College of Arts and Sciences, for the fall of 2019.
The Internet-First University Press has released a complete directory of all available material as it works to make new and archival content more easily accessible.
Classics scholar David Mankin, beloved by Cornell students for his inspiring and idiosyncratic teaching style, compassionate mentorship and the signature black sunglasses he wore to class, died April 24 after a brief illness. He was 61.
On April 30, the Africana Studies Center is hosting “Disaster: Cyclone Idai, Climate Change & Climate Migration,” a talk on the impacts of climate change, climate migration and food scarcity.
Events include the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows lecture; the play “Spill” on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill; Cornell Chorus and Glee Club performing “A German Requiem”; and the Cornell Orchestras’ final performances of the semester.
Cornell linguistics doctoral students Ryan Hearn and Joseph Rhyne created the alien language Torfan, used in one of the newest movies to come out of Marvel Cinematic Universe, “Captain Marvel.”
“A Water-Filled Journey,” the new episode of the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast series from the College of Arts and Sciences, examines Odysseus’ complex relationship with water.
Cornell’s Media Studies Initiative has announced that radio producers Chris Hoff ’02 and Sam Harnett, co-creators of the 90-second public radio show and podcast, “The World According to Sound,” will be artists in residence in Fall 2019.
