Events on campus as the fall semester begins include free films for new students, an herb garden tour, National Waffle Day at Risley Dining, and exhibits at the Johnson Museum and Mann Library.
Founded three years ago, the Cornell library witchcraft collection now consists of around 1,200 items – mostly posters, but also related movie memorabilia and advertising such as still photographs and flyers.
Fashions worn by prominent women and everyday unsung heroes, including Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s collars and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's shoes, are featured in “Women Empowered: Fashions From the Frontline,” a new exhibition opening Dec. 6 at Cornell’s Human Ecology Building.
The Department of Performing and Media Arts will stage one of William Shakespeare’s earliest and bloodiest plays Jan. 31 to Feb. 8 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
Blue forms adorning the Ag Quad are more than whimsical art to engage passersbys: the shapes are visions of what landfill architecture might look like in the future, according to Katherine Jenkins.
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.
“Beauty – Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial,” which opened Feb. 12 at the Smithsonian design museum in New York City, features a knitted textile pavilion by architecture professor Jenny Sabin.
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.
The chair of the Department of Architecture in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning has been endowed by renowned architect Richard Meier, B.Arch. '56.
More than 100 scholars from around the country shared their research and offered new perspectives at the Histories of Capitalism 2.0 conference, held at Cornell Sept. 29-Oct. 1.