Events this week include music and Warhol films, street dance at the Schwartz Center, Ensemble X, scholars discussing African migration to America, and a conference on the work of Dominick LaCapra. (Sept. 24, 2009)
In a New Student Reading Project small-group discussion, Aug. 20, led by Associate Professor Marianella Casasola, students relate 'The Pickup' to their experience of being new on campus. (Aug. 22, 2007)
The celebration of the life and legacy of Dorothy Foreman Cotton Aug. 11 in Bailey Hall provided highlights of her life as a civil rights pioneer, educator and community organizer and called on participants to keep her legacy alive.
Interim Provost David Harris examines the complex factors contributing to poverty in his new book, 'The Colors of Poverty: Why Racial and Ethnic Disparities Persist.' (Sept. 18, 2008)
In a message to the Cornell and local communities, President Martha E. Pollack said the decision to reactivate campus was driven by the “responsibility to safeguard the health and well-being of not only our students, but of our entire community.”
William J. Dress, Ph.D. '53, professor emeritus of botany at the Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium at Cornell, author of 10 plant books and for whom two plants have been named, died Dec. 15 at age 93. (Jan. 5, 2012)
Humanists writing on German topics are gaining a new channel for publication with Signale, a book series based at Cornell that aims to become a sustainable model for humanities scholarship.
David Yearsley, professor of music, will reprise some of J.S. Bach's Trio Sonatas March 8 to kick off an inaugural celebration of the new $2 million baroque pipe organ in Anabel Taylor Chapel. (March 2, 2011)