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)
Summer events at Cornell include a benefit concert for Japan, free lectures and performances, workshops with local artists, and a pair of Cary Grant classics. (July 1, 2011)
More than four dozen teachers attended a three-day workshop at Cornell to get ideas on how to integrate information about international food customs and food production into their curricula.
A benefit concert for Japanese relief efforts, featuring Cornell's new baroque organ, will be held Saturday, July 2, 7:30-9:30 p.m. at Cornell's Anabel Taylor Chapel. (June 22, 2011)
Gail Holst-Warhaft, Ph.D. '92, an adjunct professor of comparative literature, biological and environmental engineering and a poetry writer, was named Tompkins County poet laureate for 2011.
President David Skorton explored themes of dance and celebrated artistic director Judith Jamison's career at the Joan Weill Center for Dance and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Manhattan June 8. (June 20, 2011)
