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.
The College of Architecture, Art and Planning's New York City studios, AAP NYC, will be part of the Open House New York Weekend Oct. 15-16 with events including a film screening and panel.
Intellectual historian Enzo Traverso, Cornell's Susan and Barton Winokur Professor of the Humanities, has written "Left-Wing Melancholia: Marxism, History, and Memory."
Cornell will host 40 writing program administrators and faculty Oct. 7-8 for the Ivy Plus Writing Consortium, to discuss programmatic issues, their evolving roles on campus and trends in the field.
Senior lecturer Brenda Schertz, a whirlwind of energy, teaches the first American Sign Language classes at Cornell that meet the College of Arts and Sciences’ three-semester world language requirement.
Ferdows, who served as an Afghan interpreter for the U.S. Army, says Cornell welcomed him with academic support, financial aid and camaraderie with other veteran students.
This year's Caplan Travel Fellowship winners are Christopher Erdman '17 and John Hall '17, who will each use their $4,000 award to study and conduct research in Italy.
A $83,635 National Endowment for the Humanities will help the Cornell University Press make classic out-of-print books available electronically and free of charge to readers worldwide.
In his new book, "Composing the World: Harmony in the Medieval Platonic Cosmos," Andrew Hicks argues that sound has always been an integral part of the history of studying the cosmos.
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.