Manning honored for contributions to archaeology

Sturt Manning, Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Classic, received the P.E. MacAllister Field Archaeology Award at the Annual Meetings of the American Society of Overseas Research, in November in Boston.

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Exhibit highlights art/tech intersections in student work

The Milstein Program invited students from all disciplines to submit work for the A.D. White House exhibit.

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Poets in Japan experiment at the edge of media

During the past century, experimental poets in Japan have been stretching the conventional definition of the genre by creating poems in unexpected places, according to a Cornell researcher.

In ‘Fun Home’ and other books, queer narratives rework time

In “Never On Time, But Always in Time,” Kate McCullough of the College of Arts and Sciences examines four books to explore how queer narratives focus on the body and its senses to find alternative ways of experiencing and presenting time.

Fashion police dictated gender norms in early modern Genoa

Sumptuary laws – designed to “control luxury clothing consumption and the social ills it could encourage” – constrained women more than they did men. 

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A story of environmental hope set in Bali

"Borrowing Paradise," a new book for children, brings a community-centered Balinese Hindi ritual to life.

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Learn local lore, Cornell historian Earle says in ‘Last Lecture’

Lecturer Corey Ryan Earle ’07, Cornell’s unofficial historian, gave the latest installment in the Last Lecture series, which invites a respected staff member or professor to give a lecture as if it were their final one. 

Things to do: Student and ornithological art, nature crafts

The last day of classes nears, but there are still events across campus over the next week for crafters, filmgoers, art lovers and more.

Historic marker celebrates Pearl S. Buck’s stop in Ithaca

Years before writing “The Good Earth” and winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, the aspiring novelist received encouragement and a master’s degree at Cornell.