Events on campus this week include music of the Irish-American experience from Solas, a book talk on Abraham Lincoln's rhetorical power, a Glee Club collaborative concert and new foreign films.
Professor Gordon Baym, Cornell's 2013 Hans Bethe lecturer, will discuss the terrestrial experiments that explore extremes of matter in his public lecture March 27.
As the study of natural history changed over time, so too have the words writers used to describe the natural world, said Lawrence Lipking, Ph.D. '62, a visiting professor in a Feb. 26 campus lecture.
Robert Isaacs has been appointed director of choral music in the Department of Music effective July 1. He will oversee all four choirs at Cornell and conduct the Cornell Glee Club and Chorus.
Eight Cornellians received Constance E. Cook and Alice H. Cook Recognition Awards Feb. 28 for their contributions to improving the climate for women at Cornell.
Four finalists have been named in the search for a new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The candidates, who all have ties to the college, will be on campus the weeks of March 4 and 11.
In his new book 'Arcadian America,' historian Aaron Sachs examines a lost American environmental tradition, in the cemeteries that served as the nation's first urban parks.
