Events this week include Maple Fest at Cayuga Nature Center, a Chat in the Stacks talk with Noliwe Rooks and a celebration of the music of a Polish conductor whose work was banned by the Nazis.
Famed jazz musician and composer Wynton Marsalis will visit Cornell in his role as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large, for classes, workshops and joining student musicians in a free concert in Bailey Hall March 28.
Palestinian-Israeli writer Sayed Kashua, who writes in Hebrew, has a hit Israeli TV series and several novels to his credit. He will speak at Cornell on "The Foreign Mother Tongue" on March 25.
Events this week include Ag Day and Spring Fest sustainability activities on the Ag Quad; comics and pop culture; Pedal for Pets; a public lecture on civil society and public protest; and locally made films.
Behind the scenes at historic A.D. White Library's library, Cornell University Library conservators have been working to ensure that its artwork is preserved.
The inaugural East China Normal University/Cornell Summer School in Theory in Shanghai drew scholars from more than 40 east Asian universities for Cornell faculty-led seminars in art and media.
Four Cornell faculty members are among 213 national and international scholars, artists, philanthropists and business leaders elected new fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Professor of English Jane Juffer examines the effects of Latino migration to small towns in her new book, "Intimacy Across Borders: Race, Religion and Migration in the U.S. Midwest."