Practicing Arabic in Cornell's Language House, students planned Spring Break research in an Arab Spring democracy - until terrorists attacked their destination.
Sam Tilsen, assistant professor of linguistics, and colleagues used real-time magnetic resonance imaging to document anticipated vocal responses via the positions of vocal organs.
Jazz Spaces Ithaca, a series of performances that will bring prominent jazz players to Ithaca, will take place throughout the 2012-13 academic year. (Aug. 31, 2012)
An exhibition running from June 7 to October on campus will feature an original Sputnik satellite, an Enigma WWII encoding/decoding machine and a Declaration of Independence facsimile.
Events this week include "The Great Dictator" in a Cornell Cinema "Demagogues" series; "Art and the Military" at the Johnson Museum; a book talk by economist Eswar Prasad; and the Vida Guitar Quartet.
Influential literary critic M.H. Abrams is a recipient of the National Humanities Medal. President Barack Obama announced the honor July 22, the day before the emeritus professor's 102nd birthday.
The nonprofit Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, co-founded in 2012 by Ajay Chaudhary '03, integrates teaching and research in the humanities and social sciences into the lives of working adults.
Cornell seniors Felicia Kennedy and Elizabeth Davis focused on their families for their final class filmmaking projects, which will be among a group of student films screened May 13 at Cornell Cinema.