Critic speaks on urban design at Trancik retirement event

Architecture critic Robert Campbell lectured Sept. 12 in honor of Roger Trancik's retirement after 38 years as a Cornell professor of city and regional planning and landscape architecture. (Sept. 23, 2008)

Jazzed about art: American Artistic Renaissance Symposium looks at 1970s creative movement

Jazz greats Henry Threadgill, Stanley Crouch and Charlie Haden, painter Fred Brown and others will gather at Cornell Sept. 22-24 to discuss and recapture the spirit of the SoHo art scene in the 1970s. (Sept. 15, 2008)

'9/11+7' roundtable reflects on implications of the attacks

Professors Barry Strauss, Peter Katzenstein and Matthew Evangelista discuss the implications of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks at a roundtable discussion, sponsored by the Peace Studies Program. (Sept. 12, 2008)

A Constitution Day reminder: Seven states say atheists need not apply

Religion has been written in as a qualifying and a disqualifying factor in many states' constitutions throughout U.S. history, write Professors Isaac Kramnick and R. Laurence Moore. (Sept. 12, 2008)

University Librarian Anne Kenney prepares for a major overhaul of Olin Library

University Librarian Anne Kenney is at work on technical and administrative fronts, but her chief priority is the renovation of Olin Library. (Sept. 10, 2008)

Kindred writer and spirit Robert Morgan receives <br />2008 Thomas Wolfe Prize

Cornell Professor Robert Morgan shares a birthday and more with writer Thomas Wolfe. And Morgan will receive the 2008 Thomas Wolfe Prize Oct. 2 at the University of North Carolina, where both writers are alumni. (Sept. 9, 2008)

Skorton uses the power of words to get out the vote

Cornell President David Skorton read the Gettysburg Address and spoke of the power of oratory in persuading people, Sept. 6, at a kickoff event for Educate the Vote, Cornell's fall election series. (Sept. 8, 2008)

Alice Fulton explores family-based fiction in new book

In her first short-story collection, poet and Cornell professor of English Alice Fulton finds inspiration in four generations of women in her upstate family. (Sept. 5, 2008)

Literary scholar Robert Elias dies at 94

Elias was the Goldwin Smith Professor of English Literature and American Studies at Cornell, and a respected scholar in the field of American literature. He died Aug. 16 in Brookline, Mass. (Sept. 5, 2008)