Undergrad's opera, 'La Tricotea,' debuts Dec. 3

Patrick Braga '17 spent a little more than a year working on his chamber opera, "La Tricotea (Opus 25)," which will premiere Dec. 3 with 16 student vocalists and instrumentalists.

New book spotlights paradoxes of female warrior role

Oren Falk, associate professor of history, says he was as intrigued by the contrast in Norse Freydis stories as by how scholars have mostly ignored the sheer weirdness of the heroic version.

Exposing new audiences to a real Greek tragedy

Griffin Smith-Nichols ’19 spent three nights last week cowering on a set of lounge chairs in the Schwartz Center’s Black Box Theatre. He played the slightly mad, mostly murderous and often humorous Orestes.

Morgan on Harper Lee: 'a telling lesson in novel writing'

Robert Morgan opened In A Word, a new series of talks by creative writing faculty, Nov. 19 with "History and Fiction: The Growth of an Artist – Harper Lee's 'Go Set A Watchman'."

Portfolio feedback gives architecture students an edge

Architecture students studying in New York City and preparing for job searches received one-on-one feedback on their portfolios from practicing architects, including several alumni.

Things to Do, Nov. 20-Dec. 4, 2015

Events on campus include a Thanksgiving feast, an exhibition featuring supernatural beings in Asian cultures, a display of student public affairs projects and an opera composed by Patrick Braga ’17.

'Alice in Wonderland' leads researchers into the brain

John Hale's study, “Modeling fMRI time courses with linguistic structure at various grain sizes,” examines how the individual words of Lewis Carroll's famous tale come together to yield an understanding of each sentence.

PMA expands international opportunities

The Department of Performing and Media Arts has expanded its international learning opportunities this fall with visitors teaching students about global theatrical traditions and techniques.

Ariana Kim records 'powerful' works by women composers

Ariana Kim, assistant professor of performance in the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Music, will perform live excerpts from her new album Nov. 22 in Ithaca.