Albert Williams, drama critic for the Chicago Reader, wins $10,000 George Jean Nathan Award administered by Cornell University

Albert Williams, chief theater critic at the Chicago Reader, is the winner of the 1999-2000 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism.

Cornell author's book on Salzburg Festival garners top Austrian prize

A book linking the world-renowned Salzburg Music Festival with Austria's current political flirtation with the right wing has won a top prize in Austria. Cornell professor of history Michael Steinberg's book Austria as Theater and Ideology.

Robert Wright, NBC leader, is this year's Hatfield speaker Nov. 9

NBC's Robert C. Wright will deliver this year's Hatfield address at Cornell University on Thursday, Nov. 9, at 4:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium of Rockefeller Hall.

'VOTE!' exhibition of political Americana opens in Cornell's Kroch Library in time for 2000 election

Exhibition of political Americana opens in Cornell's Kroch Library 'VOTE!' in time for 2000 election. The exhibition of campaign memorabilia from the Susan Havey Douglas Collection of Political Americana.

Former New York Times columnist Tom Wicker will lecture Oct. 25

"Privacy in the Age of Media" is the topic of a lecture at Cornell University by Tom Wicker, retired political columnist for The New York Times and one of America's most respected journalists, Wednesday, Oct. 25, at 4:30 p.m.

Public is invited to opening of 'new' Lincoln Hall, Oct. 26-28

Cornell's Department of Music will celebrate the opening of its refurbished and expanded Lincoln Hall, Oct. 26-28.

Author Michael Kammen is honored by Library of Virginia

Michael Kammen, the Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture at Cornell, has been honored by the Library of Virginia with an award for his 1999 nonfiction book, Robert Gwathmey: The Life and Art of a Passionate Observer, published by the University of North Carolina Press.

Cornell Environmental Film Festival 2000 explores humanity's role in natural world Oct. 13-19

Seventeen cinematic works and the filmmakers behind them will explore humanity's role in the natural world during the Cornell Environmental Film Festival 2000, scheduled for Oct. 13-19 at Cornell.

Archaeologist Andrew Ramage strikes gold again with new book

Cornell archaeologist Andrew Ramage was a Harvard University graduate student when he struck gold at an excavation site in Sardis, Turkey, in 1968. Ramage's detective work led to a one-of-a-kind discovery: a gold refinery that belonged to legendary Lydian emperor King Croesus, the world's first "millionaire."