President David Skorton delivered the keynote address, 'Humanities: In the National Interest,' at the annual membership meeting of the National Humanities Alliance in Washington, D.C. on March 7. (March 9, 2011)
The new library Animal Legends exhibition opened with a lecture by Vice Provost Laura Brown on 'Love, Paradise, and the Rise of the Animal in English Literature,' March 4. (March 8, 2011)
At the Capital Poetics: Poetry and the Economic conference March 4, scholars discussed the relation of poetry to the political economy. (March 8, 2011)
Best-selling novelist and astrophysicist Alan Lightman read from two of his books during a Feb. 20-21 visit to campus. His works straddle the arts and sciences. (March 2, 2011)
David Yearsley, professor of music, will reprise some of J.S. Bach's Trio Sonatas March 8 to kick off an inaugural celebration of the new $2 million baroque pipe organ in Anabel Taylor Chapel. (March 2, 2011)
The new student docent program at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art trains about a dozen students a year to give tours. Students recruit and schedule their own groups. (March 1, 2011)
A researcher using data from Cornell's Kheel Center has uncovered the final six victims of the Triangle Factory Fire on March 25, 1911. (Feb. 24, 2011)
Government professor Peter Katzenstein warned against thinking that civilizations around the world are homogenous, when they are indeed pluralistic with 'shifting balances of practices.' (Feb. 23, 2011)
Theoretically stranded on an island, five professors were each given 10 minutes to persuade the audience, or 'survivors,' why their discipline should have a spot on the life raft. (Feb. 23, 2011)
