Novelist, counterculture icon and Cornellian Kurt Vonnegut Jr., who died April 11 in Manhattan at age 84, recalls getting his liberal arts education from the Cornell Daily Sun.
Steven Stucky, the Given Foundation Professor of Music at Cornell and a pre-eminent American composer, has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Former senator and presidential candidate George McGovern spoke in Statler Auditorium April 11, addressing issues of world hunger and politics. (April 12, 2007)
Two project proposals by Cornell students have received $10,000 grants from the Kathryn Wasserman Davis 100 Projects for Peace program. (April 12, 2007)
Cornell experts in computational biology and bioinformatics have made key contributions to the analysis of the genome of the rhesus macaque. (April 12, 2007)
The work of Professor David Muller and colleagues in interfacing single layers of atoms has been chosen by the journal Nature Materials as one of its top 10 papers of 2006. (April 11, 2007)
From the first page of Helena Maria Viramontes' book 'Their Dogs Came With Them,' the reader is bombarded with a kaleidoscope of sensory images that create a world like a tile mosaic, one small, vibrant piece at a time. (April 11, 2007)
The Chordials, a student a cappella group, celebrates its 10th anniversary with a new CD and concert featuring current members and alumni performing side by side, April 14. (April 11, 2007)
Faculty and visiting scholars will consider the postmodern in the arts and literature and in related scholarship in the disciplines at the Society for the Humanities' conference, April 13-14. (April 11, 2007)
Professor Ann Lemley received the honor 'for outstanding contributions in the endeavors of the division and in the science of agrochemistry.' (April 11, 2007)
Although business was looking up, Ezra Cornell still felt financially insecure during this period. His interest in farm machinery led to his investment in the Albany Agricultural Works and the Steam Agricultural Co. (April 11, 2007)
