Events this week include a local literary festival with events featuring faculty members; a free concert by the Cornell Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Glee Club; and a 3-D feature at Cornell Cinema.
Geoffrey W. Coates, the Tisch University Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
The 40th anniversary of the Grateful Dead's famed May 8, 1977, concert in Barton Hall is being celebrated with a new book, audio releases and events including a Cornell Chimes concert.
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon and Dagmawi Woubshet, associate professors of English, discussed their ongoing collaborative poetry translation project May 3 in Klarman Hall.
More than 80 students unveiled their scholarly work at the 32nd annual Spring Research Forum hosted April 27 by the Cornell Undergraduate Research Board.
In the Auburn Correctional Facility's gray stone chapel, incarcerated students and prison staff waited alongside Cornell faculty and staff April 26, eager to hear the results of who won a debate between inmates and law students.
At the International Human Rights Clinicians Conference April 28 on campus, Arafat Jamal '92 spoke on "A Crisis of War and a Crisis of Will: Prospects for Responding to a Global Refugee Phenomenon."
