Former student honors James McConkey by endowing creative writing stipend

A Jan. 24 reception celebrated the James McConkey Summer Fellowship in Creative Writing, which will support a second-year MFA student who is completing a thesis. (Jan. 29, 2008)

Classics and rarities: Schwartz Center sets new season

The Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts' 20th anniversary season in 2008-09 will celebrate accomplished Cornellians while taking on the wit of Oscar Wilde and William Shakespeare alongside new plays and rarely performed works.

Food for thought: Sage Chapel hosts talk series, Soup and Hope

On four consecutive Thursdays beginning Jan. 24, Sage Chapel invites the Cornell community is to bring a bowl, enjoy soup with hearty bread and listen to stories of hope from Ithaca community members.

Cornell's Creative Writing Program ranked among the nation's best

In its summer 2007 fiction issue, The Atlantic magazine included Cornell in its list of the leading U.S. graduate writing programs, citing the quality of the program's alumni and faculty, its selectivity and its resources. (Aug. 6, 2007)

From Bollywood to film noir, student filmmakers get to premiere their work in public screenings

Student filmmakers' projects, varying from comedy to documentary, took shape over the past semester and were screened on campus recently. (May 16, 2007)

Robert Lieberman explores old neighborhood in new film

Cornell physics faculty member Robert H. Lieberman goes home in his new film, 'Last Stop Kew Gardens,' a documentary about the Queens neighborhood where he grew up. (May 8, 2007)

Cornell's interior design program ranked No. 2 nationwide by DesignIntelligence magazine

The Department of Design and Environmental Analysis has been ranked the best program in the East and second nationwide in the annual survey conducted by DesignIntelligence magazine. (March 29, 2007)

World-class services now easily available to Blackboard users

Mike Tolomeo/ProvidedTony Cosgrave, the instruction coordinator for Cornell Library's Department of Collections, Reference, Instruction and Outreach, right, works with Marilyn Dispensa, an instructional designer from CIT, during…

The sound of a word tells us something about how it is used, Cornell study shows

A new Cornell study describes a series of linguistic experiments showing that the sounds (phonology) of a word can indicate whether it is a noun or a verb. An article on the subject will appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.