The students waiting for their Bodies at the Border class to begin chatted enthusiastically about a movie they'd just seen, and the Cornell professor asked which film. The movie watchers were almost 8,000 miles away.
An exhibition running from June 7 to October on campus will feature an original Sputnik satellite, an Enigma WWII encoding/decoding machine and a Declaration of Independence facsimile.
Cornell seniors Felicia Kennedy and Elizabeth Davis focused on their families for their final class filmmaking projects, which will be among a group of student films screened May 13 at Cornell Cinema.
Peter Beinart, a senior fellow at the New America Foundation, stressed that American Jewish organizations are failing to connect with young American Jews, who largely feel alienated from Israel.
Eric Nathan, DMA '12, has been selected to receive a 2012 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award.
Creative Writing Program faculty members Kenneth McClane and Maureen McCoy received heartfelt testimonials from colleagues at their reading April 19 in Goldwin Smith Hall's Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium.
The winner of the annual high school fashion design competition is Alyssa Kim, whose design was fabricated by Cornell students and modeled April 28 at the Cornell Design League show.
