'Radical Maneuvers: Discourses of the New,' a conference organized by the Undergraduate Comparative Literature Association, will be held April 28. (April 23, 2012)
Thanks to multilingual Cornell students, 500 Ithaca-area children learning English as a second language each have a new book personalized just for them, with the English text translated into their native language.
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."
A two-day film symposium will celebrate the late professor Robert Ascher’s contributions to visual anthropology, film and animation April 17-18. The event is free and open to the public.
Cornell University Library honored its most accomplished student workers April 12 with Fuerst Outstanding Library Student Employee Awards. (April 17, 2012)
Cornell Orchestra members traveled to Argentina over spring break to collaborate with professional symphony musicians for a concert performance of Mahler's Symphony No. 6 in the city of Neuquén.
Good filmmakers know intuitively that close-ups can be much briefer than longer-distance shots and still maintain their power. A Cornell psychologist has explained why.
"Side by Side," artist Pepón Osorio's Cornell Council for the Arts Biennial installation in Rand Hall, depicts one local family in the context of empathy as a point of contact within social systems.