Three Cornell faculty members have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They were among 159 new Fellows and 26 foreign honorary members to be elected.
In honor of the 500th "birthday" of the first publication of "Don Quixote," Cornell's Department of Romance Studies is sponsoring an international colloquium, "Cervantes and the Frontiers of Fiction: A Celebration of 'Don Quixote' (1605-2005)."
Saul A. Teukolsky, the Hans A. Bethe Professor in Physics and Astrophysics at Cornell, has been named director of the Center for Radiophysics and Space Research one of the two research centers of the Cornell astronomy department.
Nat Hentoff, award-winning author and syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, will discuss "Free Speech at Cornell and Other Centers of Higher Learning" at Cornell on Oct. 5, at 5 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium in Goldwin Smith Hall.
For the first time, Cornell has entered a national recycling contest, Recyclemania, Feb. 7-April 2, coordinated by the Class of 2014 Council and Cornell's recycling team, R5 Operations. (Feb. 10, 2011)
How Americans vote is strongly linked to their religious identities, but it is not an independent influence that transcends race, socioeconomic class and gender, reports a new study. (Nov. 24, 2009)
Native writers, storytellers and filmmakers from across the country will meet at Cornell University April 2-3 for the third annual Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers Conference.
Twenty-seven students from Brazil have arrived on campus for a year of study in engineering, life sciences, film and other fields, as part of an initiative funded by the Brazilian government.
Cornell's Garden Mosaics Program, a science education and community action program promoting intergenerational and multicultural understanding the Chris Awards and the Telly Awards.
Cornell teams placed first, fifth and 18th out of 51 teams at the 2009 ACM Greater New York regional programming contest; the first-place team will compete in the international finals. (Nov. 19, 2009)