Last summer, Cornell junior Sui-Ling Evelyne Kuo lived the good life on Appledore Island, the 95-acre home of Shoals Marine Laboratory in the Gulf of Maine.
Universities are undergoing rapid changes in response to dynamic and even contradictory forces that pose special challenges to the humanities and social sciences. In a candid effort to address these complex issues, the Cornell University Institute for German Cultural Studies and the Institute for European Studies, in cooperation with the Cornell administration, have organized a symposium.
Renaissance scholar, critic and author Stephen Greenblatt of Harvard University will give the 22nd annual Gottschalk Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Cornell Department of English, Wednesday, March 28, at 7 p.m. in Hollis Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall.
When W. Kent Fuchs becomes Cornell's next provost Jan. 1, among his priorities will be bolstering individual academic departments and encouraging optimism across campus.
Cinematic views of both the natural landscape and humans' impact on it will be offered March 5-11 during the 1999 Environmental Film Festival at Cornell University.
Seventeen films and talks by five filmmakers are included in the…
Novelist and visiting professor Richard Price will read from a work-in-progress Monday, March 12, at 4:30 p.m. in the A.D. White House on the Cornell University campus.
Editors' picks for events the week of Oct. 17 range from a Shuffle Concert to the Hans Bethe lectures to the NOW Dance Company from Seoul, South Korea. (Oct. 16, 2008)
President David Skorton arrived at Duffield Hall in a battery-operated car. His Earth-friendly mode of transportation fit perfectly with his mission: to celebrate the first anniversary of his pledge to reduce Cornell's energy footprint. (Feb. 29, 2008)
"Duality and Unification" will be the topic for mathematical physicist Edward Witten of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies when he delivers a special Gemant Lecture on Monday, Sept. 1, at 3:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall'