Events this week include "Phantom of the Opera" in Sage Chapel, Ag Day on campus, whale sounds in concert with the Cornell Chimes, a French film festival, and art talks at the Johnson Museum and the History of Art Gallery.
Maria Cristina Garcia, a professor of history and the Howard A. Newman Professor of American Studies, has been named a Woodrow Wilson Center fellow for 2013-14.
Pianist Vikram Potdar '14 is the winner of the ninth annual Cornell Concerto Competition, held Dec. 9. He will perform his winning concerto with the Cornell Symphony Orchestra on March 7, 2013. (Dec. 11, 2012)
Cornell University Library honored its most accomplished student workers April 12 with Fuerst Outstanding Library Student Employee Awards. (April 17, 2012)
Sophocles' tragedy "Oedipus (Tyrannus)," translated and directed by professor of classics Frederick Ahl, will be performed on campus Nov. 10-12 by students in Ahl's course Ancient Theatre Performance.
A member of the Russian feminist protest band Pussy Riot spoke to a full house Nov. 2, part of the weeklong Punkfest sponsored by Cornell University Library.
In the Society for the Humanities Annual Invitational Lecture March 2, Gerard Aching drew parallels between the calls to action in two books and the unfolding of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Assistant professor of architecture Jenny Sabin has won the MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program design competition for "Lumen," a pavilion opening this summer at PS1 in Long Island City.
Professor emerita of architecture Bonnie Graham McDougall died Nov. 26 at age 76. She was an expert on South Asian architecture and culture whose research and teaching interests included anthropology and linguistics.
Maureen Quilligan, the Department of English’s M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor, will present “When Women Ruled the World: the Synergies of Female Sovereignty in the Renaissance” Nov. 5.