Tracy McNulty, chair of comparative literature and professor of French and comparative literature, teaches interdisciplinary courses on as the origins of language, myth and symbolic thought.
Events on campus include exhibition hockey at Lynah Rink, free summer concerts, viewing at Fuertes Observatory and an artist reception at Cornell Plantations.
“Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry,” a book in honor of classics professor Frederick Ahl and edited by two of his former students, has just been released.
Using ancient Greek texts on war and honor to teach critical reading skills, President Rawlings led one of the class sessions in the 2016 Warrior Scholar Project July 27.
Jane-Marie Law, associate professor in the Department of Asian Studies, led 14 students on a 12-day trip to Japan in June after a semester-long class on Zen Buddhism.
Mary Beth Norton, the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History, has been elected president of the American Historical Association. Her one-year term as president will begin in January 2018.
Researchers analyzed the contents of 500 years of European and American food paintings and found indulgent, rare and exotic foods popular in paintings were not available to the average family.
Dendrochronology research by professor Sturt Manning has established a secure timeline for the archaeological and historical chronology of Mesopotamia in the second millennium B.C.
