About 57 years after Cornell opened, Willard Straight Hall opened its doors Nov. 18, 1925. The building, bustling with music, dance and club meetings, achieved instant success and a richer student social life unfolded.
Tamara Loos, associate professor of history and an expert on gender and sexuality in 19th-century Siam, has consulted on an upcoming revival of "The King and I" at Lincoln Center.
Palestinian-Israeli writer Sayed Kashua, who writes in Hebrew, has a hit Israeli TV series and several novels to his credit. He will speak at Cornell on "The Foreign Mother Tongue" on March 25.
ILR School student J. Lowell Jackson ’17 will study Bahasa Indonesian for three months this summer through the U.S. Department of State’s Critical Language Scholarship Program.
Events on campus this week include two experimental works-in-progress at the Schwartz Center, some rock climbing, Asia Night, String Day and the International Women's Day Banquet.
Cornell Cinema celebrates its 45th anniversary this year, with 'A Black & White Ball' as this year's Elegant Winter Party benefit event, March 21 in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room.
Academy-award nominated film editor Tim Squyres ‘81 will speak on campus April 25 at Charter Day: A Festival of Ideas and Imagination, part of Cornell's sesquicentennial celebrations.
“About Cornell,” a sesquicentennial magazine containing essays by students in an intermediate Chinese reading and writing course, will be sold in the Cornell Store later this spring.
Michael Feingold, a former Village Voice theater critics who now writes for the website TheaterMania.com, has received the 2013-14 George Jean Nathan Award for his criticism.
