The recent CCA Biennial brought attention to the arts and science at Cornell, including public television coverage of an installation on the Arts Quad by artist Kimsooja and materials scientists.
Events on campus this week include "Casablanca" and other Winter Break films, a leading Swiss orchestra, a book party for Alice Fulton's new poetry collection and a talk on the human development of killers.
Applications are being accepted through Feb. 23 for the 21st Anniversary James A. Perkins Prize for Interracial Understanding and Harmony. The winner receives a $5,000 prize.
Professor of human development Robert Sternberg analyzed the values-based differences in admissions at land-grand university and top private schools in a Feb. 10 campus talk at Mann Library.
Since the Feb. 5 announcement of a new funding model for student health services, students and parents have raised questions about the new $350 annual health fee. VP Susan Murphy clarified the decision in a Feb. 11 statement.
Vice President for Student and Academic Services Susan Murphy issued a statement clarifying the decision that led to the introduction of a new university student health fee beginning in 2015-16.
The Africana Studies and Research Center will host a symposium, "Strange Bedfellows: White Supremacy and Abolitionism," Feb. 13, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Hoyt Fuller Room of the center, 310 Triphammer Road.
Alumnus and former College of Engineering dean Edmund T. Cranch, who left Cornell to become president of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, died Feb. 4 at age 91.
