Events this week include actress Marlee Matlin, Darwin Days, a Breaking Bread discussion of race, religion and campus climate, and Oscar-nominated shorts and films featuring cats at Cornell Cinema.
Twelve assistant professors from Cornell's Ithaca and New York City campuses have received five-year awards from the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development program.
Events on campus this week include historical play "Jennie's Will," Robert Sternberg on challenges for land-grant institutions, and sustainable agriculture talks by alternative farmer Joel Salatin.
On Feb. 3-4, the English department will host an international conference to address the theoretical impact and importance of the groundbreaking "Theory of the Lyric" by professor Jonathan Culler.
Entrepreneurship at Cornell’s annual Celebration conference will be held Thursday and Friday, April 16-17, on campus with a number of successful alumni returning to discuss what they have learned through their ups and downs.
Events on campus this week include a 1921 "Hamlet" with live music in Sage Chapel, a book talk on music and cosmology by Andrew Hicks, work by artist Rebecca Rutstein '93, poetry and new films.
Three abstract 1940s murals featured at the Johnson Museum are being conserved after their removal from a Roosevelt Island hospital, and will be reinstalled at Cornell Tech.
Cornell researchers have captured the sharpest mid-infrared images yet of a ring of gas and dust seven light-years wide orbiting the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.