Architect Richard Meier '56, B.Arch. '57, and artist Frank Stella discussed their disciplines, their work and their friendship at the inaugural Eli Broad Lecture, Sept. 12, at the Morgan Library in Manhattan. (Sept. 19, 2011)
Eminent cultural theorist and novelist Kwame Anthony Appiah will explore how honor is the engine behind moral progress Sept. 23 at the Graduate School's 2011 Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Lecture. (Sept. 15, 2011)
Rice University Professor Cary Wolfe will deliver a lecture, 'Humans and Animals in a Biopolitical Frame,' Sept. 27 at 4:30 p.m. at Cornell's Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall. (Sept. 14, 2011)
Provost Kent Fuchs has announced that Stephanie Wiles, director of Oberlin College's Allen Memorial Art Museum since 2004, will be the next director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art.
The 20th anniversary of Akwe:kon - Cornell's 'Indian country' - was celebrated on campus Sept. 9; speakers included Cornell President David Skorton. (Sept. 13, 2011)
Stephanie Owens, an artist, writer, curator and a visiting assistant professor of art in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP), has been named director of the Cornell Council for the Arts (CCA).
Professor Emerita Mary Jacobus, who taught at Cornell from 1980-2000, is teaching and lecturing on campus this year as the M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor for 2011-12. (Sept. 6, 2011)