Events on campus include films about the Voyager mission and The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper;” a musical version of Homer’s “Odyssey,” Science on Tap with Mason Peck on accessible space travel; and a talk on medieval images of the heavens with author and art historian Benjamin Anderson.
About 5,287 miles from Ithaca, near the banks of Ghana’s Volta River, a primary and junior high school for girls is rising from the collective imagination and brain power of the Cornell University Sustainable Design team.
A $20 million gift from the Milstein family will launch the new Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity, a collaboration between the College of Arts and Sciences and Cornell Tech that will pioneer a new approach to liberal arts education for the digital age. It is the first undergraduate program to link the Ithaca and Roosevelt Island campuses.
Roger H. Farrell, professor emeritus of mathematics, died Sept. 28 at Hospicare in Ithaca, New York. He was 88. An expert in mathematical statistics, Farrell joined the Department of Mathematics in 1959.
