Fifteen students from the Dryden and Spencer-Van Etten middle schools made movies at Cornell this summer in a program that emphasized visual interpretation and expression, and technical and teamwork skills needed to develop a story from idea to film.
Jeffrey Gettleman ’94, East Africa bureau chief for The New York Times and a Pulitzer Prize winner, shared anecdotes from his time at Cornell and his career Feb. 25.
The new field of media studies will be explored in a yearlong series of lectures beginning Oct. 6 that focus on emerging research, particularly by younger scholars in the field.
This summer, six Armenian girls got an insider’s view of a massive archaeological project in their home country thanks to Camp Aragats, an initiative of the U.S.-based Aragats Foundation, which was founded by Cornell archaeologists Lori Khatchadourian and Adam T. Smith.
The College of Arts and Sciences is a leading center of scholarship on inequality, drawing from its many departments and collaborations across the university.
Political scientist Steven Levitsky, the Sundance Institute’s Keri Putnam and biomedical engineer Stephen Quake have joined the ranks of leading scholars and public intellectuals at Cornell as Andrew Dickson White Professors-at-Large.
2015 Nobel Prize winner Svetlana Alexievich spoke at Statler Auditorium on Sept. 12 about her nonfiction techniques to capture many people's voices to produce historical narratives.
Columbia University scholar Farah Jasmine Griffin will deliver the annual Wendy Rosenthal Gellman Lecture on Modern Literature on Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, M.A. '55, Thursday, March 5.
MSNBC host and scholar of African-American politics Melissa Harris-Perry will deliver the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture Feb. 23 in Sage Chapel.
A collaborative exhibition project created by four faculty members featuring reused grain silos will be installed on Governors Island in New York City this summer.