Exit, stage left. David Bathrick, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Theatre, Film and Dance and professor of German studies, has had a remarkable academic career. He's also a raconteur of the first rank.
Denis Johnson, Mark Doty and Paul Lisicky will lecture in an undergraduate writing course and teach in the English 581/Writers at Work guest seminars for graduate student writers in spring 2008. (Nov. 29, 2007)
The University Assembly 'enthusiastically and unanimously' approved a revised Campus Code of Conduct at a recent meeting. The document will go to President Skorton for review. (Nov. 29, 2007)
Jackie Robinson Foundation/Sinclair scholars attended a Nov. 19 dinner at the Statler Hotel with Keith Sinclair, who, along with this wife, Esther Sinclair, has established scholarships for minority students at Cornell. (Nov. 29, 2007)
Although he has been working only a few months, Kelvin Grant Ph.D. '07 has already pledged $5,000 a year for 10 years so that Mann Library can hire minority students to work at its main desk. (Nov. 28, 2007)
Cornell Perspectives: Daniel Lumonya, a graduate student in development sociology, says emerging African democracies need to be more accountable in how they use their resources. (Nov. 28, 2007)
A Cornell audience had an advance glimpse of 'The Rise and Fall of Books,' a documentary about professor of art Buzz Spector, Nov. 15 in Willard Straight Theatre. (Nov. 28, 2007)