A Jesuit priest argued that faith can inform science rather than impede it in the semiannual Beggs Lecture on Science, Spirituality and Society on campus Nov. 11.
To commemorate its 150th anniversary, Cornell Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections sponsored a faculty panel discussion and a reading of the Gettysburg Address by President David Skorton Nov. 19.
Events on campus include a panel on the Kennedy assassination 50 years later, plays and concerts, a community Thanksgiving dinner and a screening and discussion on electric cars and the auto industry.
“Cultural Evolution: Society, Technology, Language and Religion,” co-edited by Morten H. Christiansen, highlights the integrating role of cultural evolution across the social sciences and the humanities, similar to that of organic evolution in biology.
The Prudence Risley Residential College for the Creative and Performing Arts celebrates its 100th anniversary with a series of centennial events Nov. 21-24.
