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 his first work of fiction, Shimon Edelman, professor of psychology, has published his first fiction e-book. “Beginnings” is an eclectic collection of narratives, poems and essays.
According to Cornell professor emeritus of food science Joe Regenstein ’65, M.S. ’66, consumer fears about genetically modified food are mostly misplaced. He spoke at Mann Library Feb. 18.
Mark Ferraguto has been awarded the American Musicological Society's Pisk Prize, which recognizes the most outstanding scholarly paper read by a graduate student at the society's annual meeting. (Jan. 19, 2012)
Linguist and vernacular language scholar John Rickford and Indian architect and educator Brinda Somaya have been elected Andrew Dickson White Professors-at-Large at Cornell for six-year terms effective July 1.
Events at Cornell this week and through the winter break include student film screenings, winter solstice celebrations, the Cornell Concerto Competition and Winter Employee Celebration.
A gift from Rona and David Picket ’84 to the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of English and its creative writing program frees MFA students to write during the summer.
“Cultural Evolution: Society, Technology, Language and Religion,” co-edited by Morten H. Christiansen, highlights the integrating role of cultural evolution across the social sciences and the humanities, similar to that of organic evolution in biology.
In her new book, "How Things Make History: The Roman Empire and Its Terra Sigillata Pottery," Astrid Van Oyen argues the ubiquitous Roman pottery doesn't imply cultural Romanization.
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.