Judith Peraino, a Cornell University professor of music who studies rock and pop music, says their deaths mark the end of a pivotal era in music—shaped by issues that still resonate today.
Mary Beth Norton, the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History Emerita, was honored May 28 by the Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Plants – as objects of admiration and scientific study and materials for creative expression – are the focus of a new Cornell University Library exhibit, “Plant-Based: Botanical Innovations from Paper to Poison,” which opens Sept. 18.
As students express their interest in religion, faith-based organizations and the campus itself are evolving to meet their needs, including the addition of a Hindu temple in Anabel Taylor Hall.
Maimonides, one of the most significant intellectual figures of the medieval period,worked as a physician, thought like a scientist, and served as a leader of the Jewish community in Cairo.
Jean Frantz Blackall, a Cornell faculty member from 1958-94 who in 1971 became the first woman to receive tenure in what was then the Department of English, in the College of Arts and Sciences, died July 15 in Williamsburg, Virginia. She was 97.
Opening on Veterans Day, the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection exhibition traces the interplay of form and function across conflict and couture – while highlighting Cornell’s land-grant legacy of military service.
