Archaeology students try their hand at creating artifacts

Students in the Ceramic Analysis for Archeology class, who study ancient pottery shards, made some new pottery of their own, acquainting them with the process used by human forebears.

Vying for Pi – and pie – on Pi Day

A Pi Day celebration was held beginning at 1:59 p.m. Monday, March 14, in Malott Hall, hosted by the Cornell student chapter of the Association for Women in Mathematics.

Legacy of Cornell-led diplomacy detailed at Carnegie Hall

More than 500 people came to hear about Cornell's historical and current role as an educator of diplomats and influencers of foreign policy, March 8 in New York City.

Exhibition to showcase new media art in Goldsen archive

The exhibit "Signal to Code: 50 Years of Media Art in the Rose Goldsen Archive" opens March 17 in Kroch library. It traces the rise of new media art from the 1960s to the present.

Rarely staged 1606 opera 'Eumelio' plays March 19-20

Agostino Agazzari's rarely staged 1606 opera “Eumelio” will be mounted by students, faculty and music professionals March 19-20 in the auditorium of Klarman Hall. The opera draws on the Orpheus myth.

FBI’s J. Edgar Hoover subject of Becker Lectures

The history department's Carl Becker Lecture Series March 15, 16 and 17 on J. Edgar Hoover will be held in Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall, and are free and open to the public.

Things to Do, March 11-18, 2016

Events this week include the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, Pi Day, a Science Cabaret on insects in pop culture, a reading by poet Gjertrud Schnackenberg and Union Days at the ILR School.

Runway role-play becomes a luminous reality

Think “Game of Thrones” meets “Hunger Games.” For the Cornell Fashion Collective (CFC) show on March 12, warriors, rangers and magicians – models draped in LED lights and electroluminescent tape – will role-play on the runway.

On slavery and literature in Cuba

Gerard Aching's book 'Freedom from Liberation' is a social, psychological, historical and literary study centered on a 19th-century Cuban poet's slave narrative, the only such work to surface in the Spanish-speaking world.