Events this week include a film by Bobbito García on hip-hop, basketball and sneaker culture; a talk on conserving falcons in India; Jill Frank on reading Plato's "Republic"; foreign films at Cornell Cinema; and a reading by Creative Writing Program alumni.
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)
The best-selling author of "Alexander Hamilton" spoke to Weill Cornell Medicine students March 1 about his collaboration with Lin-Manuel Miranda on the wildly popular musical.
President David Skorton will discuss challenges, game-changing strategies and new innovations and discoveries at a Cornell event March 14 in Los Angeles. (Feb. 3, 2011)
New research from a Cornell-led team reveals variations in the radiocarbon cycle diverging from the standard calibration curve used to achieve precise radiocarbon dating in archaeological and historical research.
Cellist Gerald Appleman presented one of the cellos he made to Cornell's Department of Music Sept. 2, in appreciation of Scott Tucker, director of choral music. (Sept. 7, 2010)
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."
Patrick Braga '17 combines his interests in urban planning, music and the architecture of Le Corbusier in his second opera, "Eyes That Do Not See," Nov. 11 in Milstein Hall.
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.
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.