Renowned writer Margaret Atwood gave a public reading on campus March 29. She also met with students in two small discussion groups the next day to talk about writing and to answer questions. (April 1, 2011)
Students in Jonathan Culler's Major Poets class returned from spring break March 28 to hear M.H. 'Mike' Abrams, the Class of 1916 Professor of English Emeritus, on 'The Fourth Dimension of a Poem.' (March 30, 2011)
Cornell United Religious Work will sponsor two talks by Bishop V. Gene Robinson, who will speak on religion and young people April 6 in Sage Chapel and on advocacy for gay rights April 7 in New York City. (March 30, 2011)
Alice Fulton, the Ann S. Bowers Professor of English, is one of eight recipients to receive the 2011 American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature. The award will be presented to her in May. (March 29, 2011)
Three English M.F.A. alumni have earned praise for their first novels. Two of the authors, Tea Obreht and Alexi Zentner, both M.F.A. '09, will give a joint reading April 4 at the Cornell Store. (March 29, 2011)
Professor Mary Beth Norton will discuss her new book, 'Separated by Their Sex: Women in Public and Private in the Colonial Atlantic World,' April 1 at 2:30 p.m. in the Cornell Store Book Department. (March 29, 2011)
Historian Barry Strauss separated myth from reality regarding the warrior Spartacus and contrasted ancient and modern military tactics used during insurgencies in a March 28 lecture in Manhattan. (March 29, 2011)
Fifteen students turned their lessons learned about invasive species into artwork that will be on display for the month of April at the Cornell Plantations' Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center. (March 28, 2011)
On March 23 Cornell held a Library Salon at Lighthouse International in Manhattan that focused on the 1911 Triangle factory fire and the ILR School's Kheel Center collection and website about the fire. (March 28, 2011)
