Steve Reich '57, whose "Double Sextet" won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009, spoke with self-deprecating humor about his music and his life at age 80 during the Olin Lecture June 9 at Bailey Hall. The event was a highlight of Reunion.
Linguist and vernacular language scholar John Rickford and Indian architect and educator Brinda Somaya have been elected Andrew Dickson White Professors-at-Large at Cornell for six-year terms effective July 1.
"The Brink," an audiobook of short stories by Austin Bunn, associate professor in performing and media arts, was honored June 1 at the 2017 Audie Awards in New York City.
A panel discussion and screening of "Human Again," professor Bruce Levitt's documentary about a theater program in the Auburn Correctional Facility, is June 10 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
"Wake the Form: Artists' Books in Context," a new exhibition in Cornell University Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, runs June 8 through October.
On May 23, more than 60 people gathered at the College of Architecture, Art and Planning's studio space in New York City to consider how built environments can help meet climate change challenges.
Cornell researchers and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) growers discussed indigenous knowledge and traditional agricultural practices at a symposium at Cornell Botanic Gardens.
A newly acquired 18th-century map of what is now New York state, showing Seneca and Cayuga villages and native footpaths in addition to natural features, offers insights into colonial life.
