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)
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)
That best way to reduce government debt is to invest now on improvements in infrastructure, education and other major national priorities, say Cornell professors Robert Hockett and Robert Frank. (July 14, 2011)
In the talk 'The Future of Small' July 6, Professor Paul McEuen discussed the importance of the very small and how the tiny just may help solve some very big problems. (July 12, 2011)
Professor David Harris will return to Cornell as a senior associate dean in Arts and Sciences this summer after a year as a deputy assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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)
Nathaniel Rand '12, a human development major, and Stanislaw J. Jaworski, 26, a graduate student at the University of Gdansk who was interning in chemistry this summer, died July 2 in Fall Creek Gorge. (July 5, 2011)