A gift from Presidential Councillor Bob Blakely '63, MBA '65, and his wife, Pinky Keehner, helped restore Herakles, the statue at the entrance of the Statler Hotel.
Cornell President Elizabeth Garrett and Department of English faculty and staff will honor the late M. H. Abrams as a towering figure in literary and cultural studies at a memorial celebration Sept. 12 in Statler Auditorium.
Events include a World Cinema film at Cornell Cinema, the final weekend of an exhibit at the College of Human Ecology, the Cornell baseball team’s home-opener on April 2, and the College of Veterinary Medicine’s annual open house.
The seminar Guns: Myth and Manufacture explored the historical impact of firearms and connections between weaponry and architectural design including the use of interchangeable components.
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.
In a "Chats in the Stacks" at Olin Library on Feb. 15, German studies professor Patrizia McBride discussed her latest book, "The Chatter of the Visible."
Native American artist and Professor Emerita Kay WalkingStick has her first major solo retrospective at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
"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.
Jeffrey Gettleman ’94, the East Africa bureau chief for The New York Times and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting, will deliver the 2015 Krieger Lecture in American Political Culture Feb. 25.