The first International Fortepiano Competition held in America will be hosted by the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies at Cornell; the performances are free and open. (July 18, 2011)
An expansion of the Cornell and Columbia university libraries' collaboration will grant greater access to materials for students, faculty and staff of both institutions. (July 15, 2011)
A group of Buddhist monks, visiting the U.S. to assist the Dalai Lama, will come to the Cornell campus with prayers for world peace on July 21. (July 15, 2011)
Lecturer and fiction writer Elizabeth Tshele, MFA '10, whose pen name is NoViolet Bulawayo, has won the prestigious Caine Prize for African Writing, for her short story 'Hitting Budapest.' (July 15, 2011)
This year's School of Criticism and Theory, June 19-July 28, is addressing trends in literature, political theory, history, philosophy, art and anthropology with some of the world's leading scholars. (July 6, 2011)
A benefit concert for Japanese relief efforts, featuring Cornell's new baroque organ, will be held Saturday, July 2, 7:30-9:30 p.m. at Cornell's Anabel Taylor Chapel. (June 22, 2011)
Gail Holst-Warhaft, Ph.D. '92, an adjunct professor of comparative literature, biological and environmental engineering and a poetry writer, was named Tompkins County poet laureate for 2011.
President David Skorton explored themes of dance and celebrated artistic director Judith Jamison's career at the Joan Weill Center for Dance and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Manhattan June 8. (June 20, 2011)
A gift from the estate of architect Edgar Tafel, a member of Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Fellowship, will establish an endowed professorship in architecture and a lecture series in his name. (June 16, 2011)
