Six panelists pondered the role of religion in society and on college campuses as part of Cornell United Religious Work's 80th anniversary celebration May 11 at the Cathedral NYC.
Cathy Caruth, the M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor, discussed archiving and erasing history and memory in the works of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Derrida,during a lecture May 6. (May 12, 2010)
The son of an alumnus recalls how his father, in his later years, while suffering from Alzheimer's disease, remembers how Cornell United Religious Work helped him in 1930. (May 12, 2010)
Faculty-in-residence Cheryl Finley, assistant professor of history of art, took 15 students from her residence hall to New York City for the day April 24 to learn about art, architecture and history. (May 11, 2010)
The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded $25,000 to Turbulence.org to develop an archive of its NET ART Commissions Archive with Cornell's Rose Goldsen Archive of New Media Art. (May 11, 2010)
Cornell University Library is now offering alumni unlimited access to three electronic databases featuring the latest news and research in business and hospitality and on a variety of academic topics.
The Triple Helix, founded by Cornell students in 2004, is now at 27 schools worldwide and has a new online journal to supplement the semiannual print journals focusing on science, society and law. (May 6, 2010)
During the Jewish Diaspora, rabbis maintained a sense of community by developing eruvim - ritual boundaries around communities, said a Jewish scholar May 4 in an Arts and Sciences Humanities Lecture. (May 6, 2010)
'Bodies Unbound' is an exhibit at the Johnson Museum curated by 17 students in the History of Art Majors' Society. Its ugly, beautiful and strange bodies urge visitors to rethink their view of bodies. (May 5, 2010)
