A Nobel Prize-winning physicist, best-selling authors and a leader in global sustainable agriculture are among six newly elected Andrew Dickson White Professors-at-Large at Cornell.
Events at Cornell this week include a science outreach program for children and families; the annual Cornell Concerto Competition; and "The Nightmare Before Christmas" at Cornell Cinema.
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon and Dagmawi Woubshet, associate professors of English, discussed their ongoing collaborative poetry translation project May 3 in Klarman Hall.
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, international religious leader, philosopher, bestselling author and 2016 Templeton Prize Laureate, lectures on “Not in God’s Name: Confronting Religious Violence” April 20.
Events at Cornell this week include an exhibition on migration at the Johnson Museum; a new Toni Morrison documentary; and Social Science at Bailey Hall.
Julie Schumacher, MFA ’86, award-winning author of “Dear Committee Members,” talks about creative writing programs, academia as source material and her Cornell mentors in advance of her reading on campus March 15.
A Cornell student, representing global youth constituencies at the Conference of the Parties (COP23) in Bonn, Germany, delivered a strong climate change statement to the convention delegates.
Walter LaFeber, Cornell professor of history emeritus, will receive the American Historical Association’s 2013 Award for Scholarly Distinction in January.