A recent symposium and exhibition explored the ancient practice of spolia – using scavenged materials in new construction – and its relevance to efforts in sustainable and resilient human habitation.
Assaf Razin, the Friedman Professor of International Economics, released two new books in November. One is on global financial crises, the other compares U.S. and EU welfare policies.
The College of Human Ecology's new global and public health sciences major prepares students to understand health challenges and design strategies to alleviate or prevent them.
Near Eastern studies professor Kim Haines-Eitzen explores how natural desert sounds influenced monastic texts, from tropes like the wind as God's voice to demons sounding like thunder.
President David Skorton issued a message of condolence following the death of Shannon Jones, an upperclassman in the College of Engineering. A community support meeting will be held Dec. 1 at 4:30 p.m. in Upson Hall lounge.
A group of students have formed a club dedicated to the engineering side of roller coasters and other amusement park rides, and earned a prize in the first annual Ryerson T.H.R.I.L.L. Invitational Design Competition.
Corning Inc. CEO Wendell Weeks said his company has survived and thrived for 163 years by embracing research-based innovation in a campus talk Nov. 17.
Sherman Cochran, the Hu Shih Professor of Chinese History Emeritus, presented his case that Hu Shih, Class of 1914, is the greatest Cornelian in a Nov. 20 talk on campus.
Rachel Harmon ’15 is the recipient of a 2015 Rhodes Scholarship. She will continue her studies and social justice work at the University of Oxford, England.
President Barack Obama presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to the families of slain civil rights workers Michael Schwerner ’61, James Earl Chaney and Andrew Goodman in a ceremony Nov. 24 at the White House.
