Artist Jenn Houle, MFA '15, has created a large-scale light installation with environmental and local elements to be shown at the Ithaca Falls Natural Area Sept. 26.
The 2011 Goethe Prize competition, open to all students, is seeking essay submissions in German or English on any topic connected with German literature or culture. (March 23, 2011)
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.
Events on campus include a Cervantes conference, guest filmmaker Tia Lessin '86, a collaborator of Michael Moore; and book talks on Icelandic history and the ghostlike photography of postwar Spain.
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.
A $20 million gift from the Milstein family will launch the new Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity, a collaboration between the College of Arts and Sciences and Cornell Tech that will pioneer a new approach to liberal arts education for the digital age. It is the first undergraduate program to link the Ithaca and Roosevelt Island campuses.
Three abstract 1940s murals featured at the Johnson Museum are being conserved after their removal from a Roosevelt Island hospital, and will be reinstalled at Cornell Tech.
The 2013 Locally Grown Dance Festival, May 1-4 at the Schwartz Center, will feature collaborations on the theme of risk by student and faculty artists from Cornell and Ithaca College.