Events on campus include jazz and classical performances, glass sea creatures and a fall party at the Johnson Museum, a book talk on roads in the Himalayas and a reading by poet and novelist Ron Rash.
Two authors and nationally known experts on race and racial issues, F. Michael Higginbotham and Beverly Tatum, are coming to campus for free public talks Sept. 12-13.
Instructors of the six major national languages of Southeast Asia – Burmese, Indonesian, Khmer, Tagalog, Thai and Vietnamese – will gather at Cornell Sept. 8-10 for the Southeast Asian Language Teaching: New Directions Conference.
The College of Human Ecology and the Kheel Center will celebrate 20th-century fashion trends alongside the history of organized labor and union garment labeling in an exhibition opening Aug. 31.
Gerald Beasley, who became Cornell’s 12th Carl A. Kroch University Librarian Aug. 1, discusses his new post and the library's position within the university.
Martha E. Pollack plumbed the depths of Cornell history and spoke to current times in her inaugural address Aug. 25, following her installation as the university’s 14th president.