To study the effects of global warming, scientists will begin collaborating this summer on the New York Climate-Change Science Clearinghouse, a comprehensive, web-based reference, map and database.
Steven Stucky, the Given Foundation Professor of Music Emeritus, has died. The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and founder of Ensemble X mentored emerging composers for decades at Cornell.
Left in an attic and missing for decades, the long-lost Vincent van Gogh painting – “Sunset at Montmajour” – was authenticated by in September. Art historians identified the work, in part, thanks to a Cornell-developed engineering technique based on a canvas weave map.
Emeritus professor of creative writing Lamar Herrin uses hydrofracking as the background of his new novel, "Fractures," a family story set in a New York town.
Peter Hohendahl, professor of German studies and of comparative literature, will be honored with the conference, 'Literature and Criticism in the Public Sphere,' April 29-30 at the A.D. White House. (April 13, 2011)
The Latin American Studies Program holds its inaugural Cornell conference Friday, Feb. 19, with more than 30 research topics and projects presented by faculty, staff and students.
The Flying Nike is one of many restored pieces from the College of Arts and Sciences' 19th-century plaster Cast Collection that will grace Klarman Hall's new spaces.
The new book by anthropologist Marina Welker is an ethnographic study of the Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp. and its Batu Hijau Copper and Gold Mine in Sumbawa, Indonesia.
Cornell Arabic literature professor Shawkat M. Toorawa has received a $50,000 post-fellowship award to continue his work on several literary projects. (Aug. 9, 2011)