Events this week include new films at Cornell Cinema; a display of Martin Luther King's work with the labor movement; an early 20th-century piano festival and an exhibit from a local biodiversity survey.
Events on campus this week include the annual Dump and Run sale, new exhibits at the Johnson Museum and the College of Architecture, Art and Planning; and free films at Cornell Cinema.
Gerald R. Beasley, vice provost and chief librarian at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, has been named the next Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell. His appointment is effective Aug. 1.
Brian Eugenio Herrera, a Princeton theater professor and performer, and Chris Jones, theater critic for the Chicago Tribune, were named winners of the 2014-15 George Jean Nathan Award.
Events at Cornell this week include a conversation with Congressman Adam Schiff; exhibits exploring fashion and feathers and urban renewal in Berlin; a seminar with bioengineer Stephen Quake and performance art at Cornell Cinema.
Cornell University Library will develop new tools and methods to better describe libraries’ scholarly information resources and share them, thanks to a $1.5 million Mellon Foundation grant.
Chiara Formichi, assistant professor of Asian studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, says the stereotypes media reinforce about Islam do us a disservice.
Members of the Cornell community are invited to explore issues of race in America during six simultaneous small group discussions of the Ta-Nehisi Coates book “Between the World and Me” April 28.
Patrick Braga '17 spent a little more than a year working on his chamber opera, "La Tricotea (Opus 25)," which will premiere Dec. 3 with 16 student vocalists and instrumentalists.