Planning at CU marks 75 years with alumni events, exhibit

More than 100 City and Regional Planning alumni will return to campus Oct. 15-16 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of planning at Cornell, with events including alumni panels and an exhibit. (Oct. 6, 2010)

Group unearths 19th-century ghost stories for fall meeting

Graduate students and faculty in the Nineteenth-Century American Women Writers Study Group will discuss ghost stories at its fall meeting, Oct. 2 at Flora Rose House. (Sept. 29, 2010)

Czech president -- from Prague Spring to Willard Straight takeover -- was witness to history

Czech President Vaclav Klaus, visiting Ithaca, recalled his time here as teaching assistant in 1969 and the fall of communism. (Sept. 27, 2010)

Charioteer of Delphi is restored to its former glory

A plaster cast of the charioteer of Delphi in Goldwin Smith Hall has been restored, and a new piece was added to the cast collection: a Hellenistic sculpture of the head of a fisherman. (Sept. 27, 2010)

Rappers fueled anti-Semitism in '90s, professor says

Glenn Altschuler presented the first talk in the Jewish Studies lecture series Sept. 21 with a lecture on rappers, anti-Semitism and racism. (Sept. 23, 2010)

Digital humanities initiatives inform new approaches to research, art, media

Scholars, artists and graduate students are engaging in collaborative initiatives in the digital humanities, with support from Cornell's Society for the Humanities. (Sept. 23, 2010)

Speaker: Muslim women can use Quran to counter the 'hijacked' authority by Muslim men

Research fellow Nimat Hafez Barazangi said Muslim women can use the Quran to build a stronger identity for themselves in Muslim societies at a talk at Cornell Sept. 16. (Sept. 22, 2010)

Grants create digital collections of plaster casts and more

The Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences has awarded five grants, from creating an online collection of Cornell's plaster casts to digitizing 25,000 pages of Nepali texts.

Meetings build bridge between philosophy and psychology

A conference Sept. 11-12 at Cornell brought together scholars to examine how psychologists and philosophers can learn from one another. (Sept. 21, 2010)