Cornell events include an adventure film festival and Oscar-nominated shorts; adaptive rock climbing; a reading by Emily Fridlund and Joanie Mackowski; and an exhibition featuring campus voices on goodness, gratitude and belonging.
Among the recommendations in the committee’s final report are changes that would allow for greater exploration, simplify graduation requirements, and encourage faculty to adopt innovative approaches to teaching.
"Sustaining the Antique: a 21st-Century Festival of Classics" Oct. 28-29 in Klarman Hall's Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, examines how the ancient world impacts the modern.
Noliwe Rooks' new book “Cutting School: Privatization, Segregation, and the End of Public Education” traces the financing of segregated education in America, beginning with Civil War reconstruction to today.
Alexander Hayes is an assistant professor of astronomy at Cornell University. NASA’s Cassini spacecraft only has a few days left before its final approach to the giant planet Saturn. On Sept. 15, Cassini will dive into Saturn’s atmosphere, sending science data for as long as it can, and then melt and break apart.
Intellectual historian Enzo Traverso, Cornell's Susan and Barton Winokur Professor of the Humanities, has written "Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory."
Bruce Levitt, professor of performing and media arts and inaugural recipient of Cornell's Engaged Scholar Prize will deliver 'Human Again: Prison Theatre and the Possibilities of Redemption' Oct. 28.
A new book by Mostafa Minawi tells the story of the Ottoman Empire’s expansionist efforts during the age of high imperialism at the end of the 19th century.
Digging deep into family history? Try Cornell University Library. Not only a trove of primary sources for scholarship, the numerous archives of Cornell University Library also can bring back vivid memories and illuminate gaps in personal stories.
As the coronavirus pandemic unfolded, students in Janis Whitlock’s graduate seminar on translational research found themselves in a unique position – being able to participate in a widespread journaling project to record their hopes, fears and routines, chronicling COVID-19’s effects on their daily lives and relationships.
