CU Winds students traveled to Haiti and the Dominican Republic Jan. 10-17 on a winter service-learning concert tour, promoting cultural exchange in collaboration with local musicians and agencies.
Scholars from East China Normal University and Cornell addressed postcolonial legacies, memorial responsibilities, future memory, social memory, televisual time, and memory and reason.
Events this week include the 2018 CCA Biennial; a celebration of Finger Lakes cider on campus; exiled writer Kanchana Ugbabe; '70s political satires and Czech puppet films at Cornell Cinema; and book talks on social media and Indian migration.
Chiara Formichi, assistant professor in the Department of Asian Studies, recalls her recent trip to Iran to study Shi’i Islam, where she observed surprisingly diverse forms of religious expression.
Four students are now enrolled in the inaugural class of Cornell’s new doctoral program in Africana Studies, with another three to five students expected to join next fall.
Internationally renowned social scientists from Cornell and other institutions are getting together with artists on April 18 for a "salon" convened by the Institute for the Social Sciences.
Historian Gordon F. Sander '72's book, "The Hundred Day Winter War," is a comprehensive account of Finland's heroic stand in 1939-1940 against the Red Army.
'To reflect on arXiv is to reflect on a research world transformed by a two-decade revolution in information technology,' says Paul Ginsparg in a Nature commentary piece published Aug. 11. (Aug. 12, 2011)
Steven Muller, who as a Cornell vice president helped defuse the Willard Straight Hall takeover of 1969 and went on to lead Johns Hopkins University, has died.