In the first event of Cornell Botanic Gardens’ Fall Lecture Series, author Kathryn Aalto on Sept. 12 will discuss her book, “The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh: A Walk Through the Forest That Inspired the Hundred Acre Wood.”
Music industry expert Matthew Knowles, father to singers Beyoncé and Solange, will participate in a panel discussion at the Africana Studies and Research Center Sept. 27.
In mid-December, as the fall semester drew to a close, the Center for Teaching Innovation hosted the inaugural Cornell “Thank a Professor” event in Mann Library, Duffield Hall and Willard Straight Hall.
For decades, Cornell archaeologists have been excavating at Sardis, Turkey. A new lecture series to spotlight that work launched March 6 with the excavation’s current director, Nicholas D. Cahill, professor of Greek and Roman art at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies awarded grants to faculty to support new collaborative research on international topics and fund workshops or other activities.
Poet and scholar Fred Moten will deliver the Society for the Humanities' 2018 Invited Society Scholar Lecture on “The Gift of Corruption,” March 21 in Lewis Auditorium.
New research by Sturt Manning, professor of classical archaeology, points to the need for refinements in radiocarbon dating, the standard method for determining the dates of artifacts in archaeology and other disciplines.
Columbia University historian Jelani Cobb will deliver the 2018 Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture May 3 on police violence against black people.