In a panel discussion Feb. 20, novelists Melissa Bank '98, Junot Diaz '95 and Julie Schumacher '86 praised Cornell's Creative Writing Program and gave advice to aspiring authors. (Feb. 23, 2009)
The Department of Near Eastern Studies will launch an Intensive Arabic Program in the fall, with a full semester of language study on the Cornell campus and a semester living and studying in Jordan. (Jan. 22, 2009)
Associate professor Riché Richardson recently spent a week in Paris as a cultural envoy. She gave talks, and her art quilts depicting Barack Obama, Josephine Baker and Simone de Beauvoir were exhibited. (Jan. 22, 2009)
Editor's picks for events the week of Jan. 23 include the opening of a new play about body image, films about water, Soup and Hope and a celebration of the Lunar New Year. (Jan. 22, 2009)
Professor Morten Christiansen challenges the long-held theory that human language stems from a genetic blueprint. Instead, he says, the neural machinery used for language likely predates the emergence of language itself. (Jan. 22, 2009)
To the editor:
Great to read, and concept of lottery to choose representatives: Terrific.
Mixing students/faculty/staff: Great.
Seeing Cornell students actively involved in the world around them and voting: It's what education is…
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Díaz, M.F.A. '95, will visit campus in February to kick off a yearlong 'Centennial Plus Five Celebration of Creative Writing at Cornell.' (Jan. 21, 2009)
Among the throngs attending the presidential inauguration of Barack Obama were 100 Cornell students, faculty and staff who took an all-night bus together to brave the cold and witness the historic ceremony. (Jan. 21, 2009)
Scholars commented on the historic milestones that led up to Barack Obama's inauguration at a celebration Jan. 20 at the Africana Studies and Research Center. (Jan. 21, 2009)
