Neal Freeman '97 directs the award-winning play about Vincent Van Gogh, 'Vincent in Brixton,' at Cornell's Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, Feb. 1-5, 8-11.
On Saturday, Feb. 18, friends and former colleagues of A.R. "Archie" Ammons don't expect to see his ghost sitting in the Temple of Zeus on the Cornell campus, even though the late Goldwin Smith Professor of Poetry at Cornell would have turned 80 on that day.
Isabel Hull, the John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell, has won the 2005 Ralph Waldo Emerson Book Award for 'Absolute Destruction: Military Culture and the Practices of War in Imperial Germany'.
Michael P. Riley Jr. has been promoted to associate dean of alumni affairs, development and communications by the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell.
Roving Mars, an IMAX film documenting NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission, opens in theaters Jan. 27. 'It will be that immersion experience -- of being completely surrounded and overwhelmed with Mars,' says Cornell's Jim Bell.
Jan Willis '69, M.A. '71, the daughter of a Baptist deacon from Alabama and former campus activist, now is a chaired professor of social sciences at Wesleyan University and a prominent scholar-practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism.