Author Ron Chernow discusses hip-hop musical 'Hamilton'

The best-selling author of "Alexander Hamilton" spoke to Weill Cornell Medicine students March 1 about his collaboration with Lin-Manuel Miranda on the wildly popular musical.

Add your voice to Klarman Hall time capsule

The College of Arts and Sciences hopes to capture life at Cornell today – especially the role of the humanities in our lives – as it assembles a time capsule to be buried May 26.

Scholar details emergence of police-state tactics

City University of New York professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore delivered the Krieger Lecture at Cornell March 2 on "Organized Abandonment and Organized Violence: Devolution and the Police."

Big Ideas: How technology and humanities intersect

The College of Arts and Sciences' fourth Big Ideas Panel, part of its New Century for the Humanities celebration, explored technology in the humanities March 15 with humanists and technologists.

Things to Do, March 18-25, 2016

Events on campus include a Cornell Cinema benefit and dance party, a rare 17th-century opera, young ornithologists sharing their research and a University Lecture by Islam scholar Sherman Jackson.

Runaway slave ads portray grim period of U.S. history

Cornell's "Freedom on the Move" project will compile all 18th and 19th century North American runaway slave advertisements into a collaborative database of information.

NYC panel includes Talking Head on media preservation

A panel of art and archive experts stressed the importance of preserving materials not captured by the Internet at a March 10 discussion at New York City's University Club.

Cornell humanists strive to understand the mind

On Feb. 22, the College of Arts and Sciences brought together faculty working on philosophy of mind in a Big Ideas panel, part of the New Century for the Humanities celebration.

Lunches bring Latina/o Studies community together

Each semester, the Latina/o Studies Program hosts six informal luncheon discussions for students with Cornell faculty and administrators as “a way to bring the community together."