Events on campus this week include a lecture on plant wisdom, heavy metal fashion, a Russian poet, films by Orson Welles and a panel on Latinos at Cornell.
The renovated third floor of East Sibley Hall is now home to architecture faculty offices, 60 studio desks for architecture students and space for collaboration.
Stanford University linguist John Rickford will deliver a talk, "Justice for Jeantel (and Trayvon): Fighting Dialect Prejudice in Courtrooms and Beyond," Sept. 15 at 4:30 p.m. in Klarman Hall.
Events on campus this week include an introduction to Cornell Cinema, the Dump and Run Sale, library exhibitions all about Cornell, and a survey of art prints at the Johnson Museum.
With a ceremonial groundbreaking May 5, construction of the new Maplewood housing complex for graduate and professional students and their families is underway.
A Cornell senior and researchers have narrowed theories on why the hydrocarbon dunes – think plastic – on Titan are oriented in an unexpected direction, a solar system eccentricity that has puzzled space scientists.
A number of Cornell students traveled to NYC for the College of Human Ecology’s Practicing Medicine Program, a three-credit experience offered through the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions.
In 2013, the HealthNow health plan for endowed employees will be discontinued and the Aetna 80/20 Plan will be closed to new enrollments. Upcoming town hall meetings will be held to answer questions.
Events on campus before and during the winter break include new displays at the Johnson Museum, student films and a free family film, a concerto competition and a celebration of winter plants.
The spring 2010 issue of The Southern Quarterly focuses on the work of Professor of English Robert Morgan, who contributed 12 new poems and an excerpt from his forthcoming novel. (Aug. 3, 2010)