Students in a College of Human Ecology station class created three sets of designs for a new 4,200-square-foot wing addition to an overcrowded Honduran infant hospital.
Events on campus this week include alumni art exhibitions, a lecture on the history and nature of personally transformative objects, and stargazing at Fuertes Observatory.
The Cornell-administered George Jean Nathan Award for 2011-12 went to two drama critics. Nathan, a prominent theater critic and member of the Cornell Class of 1904, endowed the award. (Dec. 5, 2012)
While researching a book, faculty member George Hutchinson discovered the memoir of a woman who mingled with famous writers and artists in the 1920s and '30s, unbound by race or class.
First-year DMA graduate student composer Tonia Ko is one of 16 recipients of this year's American Academy of Arts and Letters awards in music, along with Steve Burke, DMA '01.
Some 250 hours of fragile audio material from Cornell’s ILR School from 1953 to 1978 will be available to the public soon, thanks to a grant from the New York State Library.
'The Oxford Handbook of Sound Studies' looks at the impact and changing impact of sounds in a variety of public and private spaces throughout history. (Jan. 12, 2012)
To understand suicide bombers better – why people kill themselves and others for a cause – we need to look more closely at cultures that value group over individuals’ thought, says new Cornell social science research.