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.
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)
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.
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)
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.
An Oct. 1 panel, organized by students for the Cornell International Affairs Review, confronted the events that have caused the 'erosion of confidence and trust' and 'financial behemoths [to] fall almost every week.' (Oct. 2, 2008)
What do the New York state apparel industry, the Czech Republic, Vermont home knitters and Cornell have in common? Answer: Suzanne Loker, professor of textiles and apparel.
The emerging field of nanobiotechnology could hasten the creation of useful ultra-small devices that mimic living biological systems - if only biologists knew more about nanotechnology and engineers understood more biology.