The Cornell Wind Ensemble toured Costa Rica for the second time in January, delivering more than 80 donated instruments to three schools and performing concerts across the country.
A Jan. 24 reception celebrated the James McConkey Summer Fellowship in Creative Writing, which will support a second-year MFA student who is completing a thesis. (Jan. 29, 2008)
The Arecibo Observatory will have its sights set on a newly discovered asteroid, 2007 TU24, next week as the object passes within 334,000 miles of Earth. (Jan. 25, 2008)
The Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts' 20th anniversary season in 2008-09 will celebrate accomplished Cornellians while taking on the wit of Oscar Wilde and William Shakespeare alongside new plays and rarely performed works.
In this interview with Paul Sawyer, Culler, two-time chair of the English department, offers some reflections on the enduring value of theory as an unbounded, ever-changing series of questions and vantage points. (Jan. 24, 2008)
Cornell astronomer James Houck, who led the development of the Spitzer Space Telescope's infrared spectrograph, received the American Astronomical Society's 2008 Joseph Weber Award for Astronomical Instrumentation. (Jan. 23, 2008)
Neutron stars can be considerably more massive than previously believed, and it is more difficult to form black holes, according to new research developed by using the Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico. (Jan. 17, 2008)
Professors Ross Brann, Albert George and David Winkler have been chosen for the 2007 Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellowships for excellence in teaching and advising undergraduate students. (Jan. 16, 2008)
