Best-selling novelist and astrophysicist Alan Lightman read from two of his books during a Feb. 20-21 visit to campus. His works straddle the arts and sciences. (March 2, 2011)
David Yearsley, professor of music, will reprise some of J.S. Bach's Trio Sonatas March 8 to kick off an inaugural celebration of the new $2 million baroque pipe organ in Anabel Taylor Chapel. (March 2, 2011)
Gordon Franklin Streib, professor emeritus of sociology and an internationally known scholar of retirement housing who taught at Cornell, died Feb. 17 at the age of 92. (March 2, 2011)
The new student docent program at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art trains about a dozen students a year to give tours. Students recruit and schedule their own groups. (March 1, 2011)
Cornell's East Asian Studies celebrates six decades of developing multicultural academic programs throughout the world with a 60th Anniversary Symposium and other events, March 4-5. (Feb. 25, 2011)
Government professor Peter Katzenstein warned against thinking that civilizations around the world are homogenous, when they are indeed pluralistic with 'shifting balances of practices.' (Feb. 23, 2011)
Theoretically stranded on an island, five professors were each given 10 minutes to persuade the audience, or 'survivors,' why their discipline should have a spot on the life raft. (Feb. 23, 2011)
The student-led Cornell University Sustainable Design has published 'Schoolhouse South Africa: Comprehensive Context,' a book on their design approach to building a school in South Africa this summer. (Feb. 22, 2011)
