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.
Events this week include a town-gown collaboration performed with Latina/o community members, silent comedy and Middle Eastern cinema, songs for Jim Henson, a book talk on creativity and intelligence, and the Digital Agriculture Hackathon.
Roger Moseley and Lori Khatchadourian received Robert and Helen Appel Fellowships for Humanists and Social Scientists; Margo Crawford received the Robert A. and Donna B. Paul Academic Advising Award.
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.
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.
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.
A $10 million challenge gift from Barton and Susan Winokur, both Class of ’61, is helping to launch a fundraising campaign in the College of Arts and Sciences that will support the creation of 15-25 new endowed positions.
Events this week include a conference for international dramatists, jazz and big band swing, new science fiction films at Cornell Cinema, a talk on building sustainable communities and a reading by MFA writers.