Things to Do, Nov. 18-Dec. 2, 2016

Events on campus include the sixth annual town-gown awards, the Cornell Concerto Competition, classical and jazz performances, and "Casablanca" in Willard Straight Hall.

Academic calendar under review; input sought

A committee has been set up to review the academic calendar, including breaks, start and end dates of the semester, and other calendaring considerations. Faculty, staff and students are asked to provide feedback.

Symposium fosters network to facilitate dual-career hiring

Cornell hosted the Dual-Career Symposium Nov. 9, fostering a regional network to discuss how to leverage collective resources to better address the challenging issue of dual-career hiring. More than 40 participants attended.

'The Quill Guild' crafts a creative writing community

The Quill Guild, a creative writing club at Cornell, aims to create a community for collaborative learning and writing, was established in fall 2015 by Aisha Rupasingha ’18, an English major.

Study abroad leads professor to lifelong academic study

Anne Blackburn is a professor in the Department of Asian Studies and a faculty member in Cornell's South Asia Program, Southeast Asia Program and the Religious Studies Program.

Film shows student design proposals for Polish estate

Reimagining a future for a neglected rural estate in Poland once in Ann Michel '77's family, students in a fall 2015 architecture design studio are featured in her documentary "Reversing Oblivion."

Layered paint and propaganda: Mellon seminar visits Cuba

Students in a Mellon collaborative studies seminar in architecture, urbanism and the humanities spent eight days in Cuba this semester to study the island's changing politics and environment.

Fall Hans Bethe Lecture to focus on 'spooky action'

Physicist Anton Zeilinger will explore how quantum entanglement has been applied to cryptography, teleportation and even communication satellites Nov. 30 at 7:30 p.m. in Rockefeller Hall.

Cornell sustains presidential ties to Univ. of Michigan

With the selection of Martha E. Pollack as Cornell’s 14th president, the university has chosen five of its last six leaders from Big Ten schools.