Merging the past, present and future, the Cornell Symphony Orchestra, the Cornell Chorus and the Cornell Glee Club performed a concert tailored for the sesquicentennial, "My Cornell: A Celebration of Words."
Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address is one of the most important speeches in history, said Professor Allen Guelzo, of Gettysburg College, in Bailey Hall July 30. And for very good reasons, he said.
Four scholars with Cornell connections looked at a revolution in humanities teaching, research and subject matter at a Charter Day Weekend panel April 25.
Dendrochronology research by professor Sturt Manning has established a secure timeline for the archaeological and historical chronology of Mesopotamia in the second millennium B.C.
Beginning in November, Chinese librarians will come to Cornell to learn from library specialists how to preserve and protect valuable books. (Oct. 5, 2012)
Researchers Louisa Smieska and Ruth Mullett are advancing studies of medieval illuminated manuscripts with X-ray imaging at CHESS of the pigment trace elements found in pages in Cornell collections.
Professors N'Dri Assie-Lumumba and Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo have each received the 2010 Distinguished Africanist Award from the New York State African Studies Association. (April 15, 2010)
A National Science Foundation grant to the Department of Classics will support dendrochronology research in the Near East to determine a precise radiocarbon timeline for Biblical archaeology. (Sept. 27, 2012)
The winner of the 2011 Cornell Fashion Design Award for High School Students is Tiffany Zhang of California for her design of a fanciful extraterrestrial outfit. (April 18, 2011)
Cornell writer-in-residence and visiting professor in the Department of Government Irakli Kakabadze was awarded the Oxfam Novib/PEN Award 2009 in The Hague, Nov. 18. (Nov. 24, 2009)