Cornell's Institute for the Social Sciences has announced the recipients of its biannual small grant award for interdisciplinary research and conference support among other efforts. (Nov. 12, 2007)
By spring 2013, the Cornell Big Red Bands hope to have a home of their own - a new 6,400-square-foot facility behind the Schoellkopf Crescent. Groundbreaking is expected to occur in 2012. (Oct. 3, 2011)
Six students and staff from the Cornell's Southeast Asia Program as well as the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble helped celebrate the Asian Elephant Extravaganza at the Syracuse zoo Aug. 21. (Aug. 24, 2010)
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded a grant of more than $366,000 to the Johnson Museum to support the upcoming exhibitions and related programming, including a scholarly symposium. (March 13, 2008)
Introduction by Cornell President Hunter Rawlings and Kord. -- 2 p.m.: "The Psychoanalytic Construction of Creativity" by Donald Kuspit, A. D. White Professor at Large at Cornell and professor of art history and philosophy at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Kuspit, one of America's most distinguished art critics, is a winner of the prestigious Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism (1983) given by the College Art Association. He is a contributing editor at Artforum, Sculpture and New Art Examiner and is editor of Art Criticism. Kuspit, who has studied at the Psychoanalytic Institute of the New York University Medical Center, is author of Signs of Psyche in Modern and Postmodern Art (1994), Health and Happiness in Twentieth Century Avant-Garde Art (with Lynn Gamwell; Cornell University Press, 1996) and Idiosyncratic Identities: Artists at the End of the Avant-Garde (1996).
Charles H.K. Williamson, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and a popular Cornell teacher, has been named New York state's top professor by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council…
John H. Foote ’74 and Joseph Thanhauser ’71 are spearheading a project to erect a bronze statue to pay tribute to the bear cubs who served as Cornell’s unofficial, original mascot, Touchdown.
Cellular coverage will improve with the addition of new AT&T antennas, perhaps as soon as late summer, according to CIT's Tom Ball. Also, the decision has been made to remove in-room landlines from residence halls. (April 9, 2009)
Seven New York state grade school and high school teachers took part in an educational tour of Eastern Europe, thanks to Cornell's Institute for European Studies. (Aug. 31, 2011)
Divided they stand. To catch the eye -- and interest -- of Cornell passersby on the Arts Quad, two students in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP) have designed and installed an artwork called BORDER::PASSAGE, a…