A new exhibit at Mann Library aims to introduce Cornellians to the early 18th-century naturalist Mark Catesby, whose impact on botany and horticulture was enormous, and runs through June.
Multimedia artist and educator Pepón Osorio will unveil "Side by Side," his installation for the Cornell Council for the Arts Biennial, April 20 in Rand Hall.
Earl Lewis, award-winning scholar and president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, spoke on "When the Past Is not the Past: Slavery and the American Psyche" April 11 in Klarman Hall.
Events on campus this week include "The Last Waltz" and "Metropolitan" at Cornell Cinema; Indonesian art; original drama at the Schwartz Center, Pao Bhangra, and ESPN's Sarah Spain '02 and Kate Fagan.
"Transforming Bodies," an interdisciplinary conference April 21-22, will explore the centrality of bodies to concepts and practices of conversion in the early modern world.
Cornell faculty members Stephen Coate, María Cristina García, Suzanne Mettler and Fred Schneider have been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Ninety-eight Cornell graduate and professional students will travel to 47 countries over the next year with support from the Einaudi Center's International Travel Grant Program.
Cornell University's Hip Hop Collection is releasing hundreds of newly digitized images of hip-hop's explosion into the international mainstream and shed new light on some of its biggest stars.
