Starting this fall, all incoming students in the College of Arts and Sciences will meet weekly in small groups with a faculty member to help make their transition to college life easier.
Travelers to Reunion were introduced to the origins and evolution of travel photography in a talk June 6 by Andrew Moisey, assistant professor of the history of art and visual studies.
Soil scientist Johannes Lehmann and Nathaniel Stern ’99 collaborated on experimental pyrolysis techniques to “age” modern technology and media – cellphones, laptops, tablets, floppy disks – for Stern’s art exhibit in Milwaukee.
Maps are more than two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional terrain – they are also powerful political tools to control territory, as sociologist Christine Leuenberger explains in her new book.
Seven postdoctoral researchers at Cornell were honored with a Postdoc Achievement Award as part of Cornell’s celebration of National Postdoc Appreciation Week, Sept. 21-25.
Barbara Graziosi, a professor of classics at Princeton University, will deliver the three-part Townsend Lectures, Sept. 10, 13 and 17, on the theme of “Homecoming and Homemaking in the Ancient Mediterranean.”
President Bill Clinton will participate in a virtual conversation about strengthening America's democratic norms for future generations on March 18, launching the new Milstein Democracy Forum Speaker Series.
“Arts Unplugged,” sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, will kick off April 26 with “The Odyssey in Ithaca,” a community reading of a new translation of Homer’s “Odyssey.”
New Cornell-led research analyzes the notion of “swing” voters and develops a more general approach to identifying “pivotal components,” which are applicable to a wide range of systems.
Scholars from Germany and the United Kingdom, as well as numerous U.S. universities, will visit campus Nov. 7-9 for the first media studies conference sponsored by Critical Inquiry into Values, Imagination and Culture.