Library staff have uncovered new meaning in an Egyptian papyrus scroll purchased by Andrew Dickson White’s 1889. The papyrus, as well as several other Egypt-related artifacts, are on exhibition through June 15.
The Atlantic Philanthropies has granted $10 million for the Center for the Study of Inequality, based in Arts and Sciences; $3.25 million for the Law School’s International Center on Capital Punishment; and $3 million toward a welcome center.
Cornell’s David R. Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future has given $1.2 million from its Academic Venture Fund to 11 new university projects from 37 proposals.
Americans buy into a socio-economic system of increasingly vast financial inequity because they believe deeply in upward mobility, despite evidence indicating that a relative few have the opportunity to move up.
Sara Warner, associate professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts, has published her first book, 'Acts of Gaiety: LGBT Performance and the Politics of Pleasure.' (Oct. 26, 2012)