Graduate student, alumnus win music awards

First-year DMA graduate student composer Tonia Ko is one of 16 recipients of this year's American Academy of Arts and Letters awards in music, along with Steve Burke, DMA '01.

Morrison speaks on evil, language and 'the white gaze'

The Nobel Prize-winning author returned to campus March 7 for a conversation about literature, politics and, especially, language.

Faculty on alternative approaches to global crisis

To address inequality and the environmental crisis facing the world today people should pull together rather than compete against each other for individual gain, two faculty members urged in a Feb. 28 lecture.

Philosophy students serve up the ethics of eating

Contemplating concepts like sustenance grown nearby and global dietary choices, students from the Ethics of Eating course turned local food into a feast for food columnist Mark Bittman.

Student's research could shake up Wall Street

Aleksandar Zvorinji's '13, a College Scholar, is working to complete an algorithm that could outperform the markets with a high degree of confidence.

Logevall named vice provost for international relations

Fredrik Logevall, the John S. Knight Professor of International Studies and director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, will succeed Alice Pell, effective July 1.

Sequester could have a $28 million impact on Cornell

The $85 billion in automatic, across-the-board federal spending cuts that went into effect March 1 - the sequester - may eventually cost Cornell $28 million universitywide.

Tim Squyres '81 – from fleeing physics to 'Life of Pi'

Film editor Tim Squyres '81, who introduces his latest movie with Ang Lee, “Life of Pi,” March 10 at Cornell Cinema, talks about his embrace of film production as a Cornell student.

Writer Andrew Boryga is Undergraduate Artist of the Year

The Cornell Council for the Arts has announced the selection of fiction writer Andrew Boryga '13 as the Undergraduate Artist of the Year for 2012-13. A reading and award presentation is April 25.