Early music expert, anti-apartheid activist to spark intellectual life at Cornell

Two new A.D. White Professors-at-Large have been appointed to help spark intellectual and cultural life at Cornell: musicologist Christopher Hogwood and anti-apartheid activist Albie Sachs. (Oct. 10, 2012)

Cornell Library to teach preservation techniques to Chinese

Beginning in November, Chinese librarians will come to Cornell to learn from library specialists how to preserve and protect valuable books. (Oct. 5, 2012)

First Mellon Diversity Fellows arrive on campus

Thanks to $2 million from the Mellon Foundation, the first four Mellon Diversity fellows have arrived on campus to conduct research and attend weekly multidisciplinary seminars. (Oct. 4, 2012)

Renowned American poet to present Messenger lectures

A.E. Stallings, award-winning poet and translator, will present three lectures, Oct. 15, 17 and 18, as one of this year's Messenger lecturers. (Oct. 4, 2012)

Lecture explores inequalities in American democracy

Political scientist Larry Bartels addressed our 'unequal democracy' Sept. 24 in a lecture on campus based on his book, 'Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age.' (Oct. 4, 2012)

Junot Diaz, MFA '95, wins MacArthur fellowship

Fiction writer Junot Diaz, MFA '95, is among 23 recipients of a 2012 John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. The $500,000 awards are intended to encourage innovation. (Oct. 2, 2012)

Logevall book maps road to disaster in Vietnam

In his new history of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, historian Fredrik Logevall draws on new sources to tell the story of disastrous foreign policy decisions. (Sept. 28, 2012)

NSF supports research to pinpoint early Biblical timeline

A National Science Foundation grant to the Department of Classics will support dendrochronology research in the Near East to determine a precise radiocarbon timeline for Biblical archaeology. (Sept. 27, 2012)

Diacritics at 40: Redesigned literary journal archives its past

The literary theory journal diacritics, founded at Cornell in 1971, enters its 40th year of publication with a complete redesign, and donation of its archives to Cornell University Library. (Sept. 27, 2012)