At the end of the school year, a group of Cornell students sets off for Spain with Cornell professors for the six-week Summer in Madrid program, which transforms their outlook.
In his new book Timothy Campbell, professor of Romance studies in the College of Arts and Sciences, asks if gift-giving is a positive or negative force in modern culture.
Algerian-Italian novelist Amara Lakhous, author of the 2014 New Student Reading Project selection, “Clash of Civilizations Over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio,” will speak on campus Nov. 4.
Cornell will host the Conference in Laboratory Phonology, an international meeting for researchers taking experimental approaches to the study of human speech sounds, July 13-17. It will addresses sounds in human language as part of a linguistic, cognitive and communicative system.
A day after President-elect Donald Trump’s Nov. 8 victory, Cornell students, senior administrators, faculty and staff gathered for a meal while processing the election results as a community and discussing how to move on in post-election America.
J. Meejin Yoon, B.Arch. ’95, will return to Cornell as the next dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. Her five-year term as the Gale and Ira Drukier Dean begins Jan. 1, 2019.
Historian Raymond Craib's "The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile" offers a vivid view of the early and difficult history of Chile’s student anarchists.
Bruce Levitt delivered the Engaged Scholar Prize lecture Oct. 28 about his time with the Phoenix Players Theatre Group and his corresponding documentary, "Human Again."