Visionary animated filmmakers Timothy and Stephen Quay visited campus for an exhibition of their film sets and decor, screenings of their work and classes with art and film students.
A Literary Luncheon at the home of President David Skorton and Professor Robin Davisson will feature University Librarian Anne Kenney speaking on Ernest Hemingway's literary legacy in Cuba on Feb. 10. (Feb. 1, 2010)
University Archivist Elaine Engst and historian Carol Kammen discussed how blacks and Jews were simultaneously 'part and apart' of the Cornell student body from the beginning in New York, Jan. 26.
CU Winds continued its cultural outreach mission on its third biennial tour of Costa Rica, donating 95 instruments to five schools and performing with and teaching student musicians and conductors.
The Truman Capote Trust has awarded the Cornell English department a $30,000 Truman Capote Lectureship in Creative Writing grant for a graduate student.
Cornell Library is asking other research institutions to contribute to the support of the online arXiv repository of science and mathematics preprints. (Jan. 25, 2010)
Cornell classics professor Eric Rebillard has been awarded a $45,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support his research on funerary behaviors among the common people of the Roman Empire. (Jan. 18, 2010)
A concerto, composed by Grammy nominee and Cornell professor of music Roberto Sierra, and perfectly timed images of the planet Saturn are now available on a new DVD.
