The Alloy Orchestra will return to Cornell Cinema Nov. 3-5 to accompany four classic European silent films in Willard Straight Theatre, including Fritz Lang's "Metropolis."
At the China-Asia Pacific Studies Program roundtable Oct. 19 in Kaufman Auditorium, Cornell faculty members discussed the implications of the American election on U.S. relations with Asia.
In the war against MRSA, constructing single-patient rooms – rather than sick-bay style, multi-patient rooms – reduces hospital-acquired infections among patients, says new Cornell-led study.
New Orleans surrounded by excess and humanity is the theme of this year's Locally Grown Dance Festival, created by dance senior lecturers Byron Suber and Jumay Chu, March 17-19 at the Schwartz Center.
Events on campus in July include aboriginal art at the Johnson Museum, Karl Pillemer relating lessons on love from elders, Plantations botanical garden tours and School of Criticism and Theory public lectures.
Events this week include skating at Lynah Rink; a Tchaikovsky symphony concert; an animated portrait of Vincent Van Gogh; a runway show and designer talk, and a student-curated American landscape exhibit.
"Bones Around My Neck: The Life and Exile of a Prince Provocateur" by Tamara Loos, associate professor of history, focuses on Prince Prisdang Chumsai of Siam, which reads like a modern soap opera.
Kim Haines-Eitzen's recent book 'The Gendered Palimpsest' reveals a layered history of early Christianity through an analysis of women's roles both in early Christian texts and text transmission. (Oct. 16, 2012)
A plaster cast of the charioteer of Delphi in Goldwin Smith Hall has been restored, and a new piece was added to the cast collection: a Hellenistic sculpture of the head of a fisherman. (Sept. 27, 2010)