Events on campus this week include printmaking activities at the Johnson Museum, a fiction reading by novelist Colson Whitehead
and a talk on eating disorders by Olympic athlete Jamie Silverstein ’08.
Not long after Cornell University opened its doors, professors organized expeditions. For 150 years, the faculty and students have traveled around our globe and others.
The Africana Studies and Research Center is launching new initiatives including speakers, mentoring efforts, special events and even classroom renovations, to help students impact the world.
A memorial celebration Sept. 12 in Statler Auditorium brought together much of what M.H. "Mike" Abrams cherished - poetry, Elizabethan music, family, friends and colleagues.
In a Sept. 10 campus talk, Peter Katzenstein, Cornell's Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies, contended that the U.S. and Russia are in a Cold Peace rather than a Cold War.
A letter by Ezra Cornell, who met Abraham Lincoln on the eve of his inauguration, reflects the founder's plain-spoken optimism. The letter will be on display Saturday, Sept. 19, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., at Kroch Library.
Sean Patev, a graduate student in the field of plant pathology, is bringing his 3-D printer to Cornell University library events this fall as the library investigates installing "maker spaces" in several campus locations.
Events this week include the Lab of Ornithology's centennial open house, a student fiber arts exhibition, a celebration of M.H. Abrams and a Science Cabaret with mycologist Kathie Hodge.
David S. Cohen ’85, deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, will deliver the LaFeber-Silbey Lecture in History Thursday, Sept. 17 at 4:30 p.m. at Goldwin Smith Hall.
