The Luce Scholars Program, aimed at increasing awareness of Asia among future leaders in American society, provides stipends and placement in one-year internships in Asia.
City University of New York professor Ruth Wilson Gilmore delivered the Krieger Lecture at Cornell March 2 on "Organized Abandonment and Organized Violence: Devolution and the Police."
The initiative, a project of the Cornell Institute for European Studies, will provide a multidisciplinary platform for the study of the Ottoman Empire. Inaugural events begin March 14.
The Society for the Humanities fall interdisciplinary conference, "Performing Skin," explored the year's focal research theme: "skin," Oct. 21 and 22 in the A.D. White House.
“Sustaining the Antique, a 21st-Century Festival of Classics” celebrated the living aspects of Greek and Roman culture for two days in Klarman and Goldwin Smith halls.
Events this week include the Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club Commencement Concert; a talk on better ornithology through technology; and exhibits at the Johnson Museum and Mann Library.
Physician Wayne Waz '84 spoke with students in professor Stephen Hilgartner's class on "Ethical Issues in Health and Medicine" to share his experience with the changing medical profession.
Architects Jacques Herzog and Peter Eisenman ’54, B.Arch. ’55, will visit campus to discuss their work Sept. 10-11 as part of the 2013 Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lecture Series and Symposium in Milstein Hall.