Harvey Scott McMillin Jr., a renowned Cornell professor of English who died unexpectedly March 29, 2006, has posthumously won the George Jean Nathan award for his 2006 book, 'The Musical as Drama.' (Jan. 4, 2008)
The Creative Writing Program has announced the schedule for its spring 2008 Reading Series, which features established and emerging artists. All events, held on Thursdays, are free and open to the public. (Jan. 4, 2008)
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has awarded Kelly Patterson and Sarah Thebaud, Cornell doctoral students who are studying entrepreneurship, 2008 Kauffman Dissertation Fellowships of $20,000 each. (Jan. 4, 2008)
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)
Cornell's Merrill Presidential Scholars Program will honor this week 36 seniors and the high school teachers and university faculty members who made important contributions to the students' lives. (May 21, 2007)
Student filmmakers' projects, varying from comedy to documentary, took shape over the past semester and were screened on campus recently. (May 16, 2007)
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)
Newly released data -- from 21 delicately timed observations at three telescopes taken over five years -- yields the strongest evidence to date that Mercury has a molten core, reports Jean-Luc Margot in Science. (May 3, 2007)
Model minority is a 'myth of the American dream,' says a panelist at the April 20 'Deconstructing the Model Minority' discussion, sponsored by the Asian Political Action Committee, a Cornell student group. (April 25, 2007)