University Librarian Anne R. Kenney has won the American Library Association's Hugh C. Atkinson Award, which recognizes accomplishments in the areas of library automation or library management.
Events this week include a lecture on research by NPR science correspondent Richard Harris, documentaries about Syria and Mongolia, classical Indian dance and a book talk on “The Economy of Hope.”
Cornell University Library will work with researchers to meet new requirements for federally funded research that call for free access to funded research and data.
As the study of natural history changed over time, so too have the words writers used to describe the natural world, said Lawrence Lipking, Ph.D. '62, a visiting professor in a Feb. 26 campus lecture.
Cornell classics professor Eric Rebillard has been awarded a $45,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support his research on funerary behaviors among the common people of the Roman Empire. (Jan. 18, 2010)
Events this week include an artist talk and exhibition by Deborah Castillo, a conversation with BET Networks CEO Debra Lee, a choir of scholars, and a book talk by artist and professor Carl Ostendarp.
Zimbabwean author NoViolet Bulawayo, MFA ‘10, spoke on campus DATE about her creative writing process and the influence of Cornell's MFA program on her work.