Students explored texts and artworks with themes of movement, escape and water and curated a gallery installation at the Johnson Museum in a course in the "Connecting Research With Practice" initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation.
James Wells Gair, Ph.D. '63, a professor of linguistics emeritus who did pioneering work on South Asian languages and their relation to other languages, died Dec. 10 in Ithaca at age 88.
Chinelo Onyilofor ’15, a dual major in chemistry and art history who will graduate Saturday, credits the liberal arts with expanding her combine subjective and objective disciplines to solve problems.
Six students are researching fencing, teaching English, exploring how regions recover from natural disasters, and immersing themselves in Asian languages, thanks to grants from the Department of Asian Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Cornell professor N'Dri Assié-Lumumba has been elected vice president of the Comparative and International Education Society for 2013-14 and will assume the society's presidency in 2015-16.
“The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised]” plays on campus Feb. 25 to March 5, with all 37 of Shakespeare's plays crammed into each 100-minute performance.
Events this week include a film by Bobbito García on hip-hop, basketball and sneaker culture; a talk on conserving falcons in India; Jill Frank on reading Plato's "Republic"; foreign films at Cornell Cinema; and a reading by Creative Writing Program alumni.
Pioneering photographer of lesbian erotica Honey Lee Cottrell, who died recently, has given her papers to the Cornell University Library Human Sexuality Collection.
Constitutional scholars – Michael Klarman and Michael Dorf – offed their thoughts on the history of the U.S. Constitution at a panel during the May 26 Klarman Hall dedication.