Timothy Murray, the Taylor Family Director of the Society for the Humanities, will present “In the Name of the Hero" at an art history panel Nov. 8 at the 2015 Beijing Forum in Beijing, China.
Anindita Banerjee, associate professor of comparative literature, launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund translation of Russian science fiction spanning the revolution to the 1990s.
Faculty and administrators discussed balancing the rising expense of financial aid against maintaining and enhancing the university’s academic profile at a faculty forum, “Financial Aid Policies: Unimaginable Outcomes?” Oct. 21.
Samantha Sheppard, an expert on African-American cinema and movie fan, has several scholarly and critical works forthcoming and runs the Voices and Visions in Black Cinema series at Cornell.
Novelist Amara Lakhous spoke about European immigration in an Oct. 22 campus talk and referred to his own journey from Algerian immigrant to Italy to academic and literary success.
A gift from Mong Family Foundation, through Stephen Mong '92, MEN '93, MBA '02, will create Cornell Neurotech, a cross-campus effort to understand how individual brain cells function.
Provost Michael Kotlikoff has called for proposals for feasibility and planning grants for academic programs that span the Ithaca and Cornell Tech campuses. The deadline to submit proposals is Jan. 22, 2016.
Scientist Marilyn Jacox, Ph.D. ’56, who died in 2013, bequeathed $1.5 million from her estate to fund scholarships for female undergrads studying science and math at Cornell.
