Three English M.F.A. alumni have earned praise for their first novels. Two of the authors, Tea Obreht and Alexi Zentner, both M.F.A. '09, will give a joint reading April 4 at the Cornell Store. (March 29, 2011)
The spring 2010 issue of The Southern Quarterly focuses on the work of Professor of English Robert Morgan, who contributed 12 new poems and an excerpt from his forthcoming novel. (Aug. 3, 2010)
Renowned author, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou will deliver the 2008 Cornell Convocation address to graduating seniors Saturday, May 24, at noon in Schoellkopf Stadium. (April 1, 2008)
Students in architecture, city planning, anthropology, landscape architecture and Asian and religious studies spent several days together this fall exploring conditions in Southeast Asian cities.
A new generation of cybertools developed at Cornell and a Sinhala language data archive at Cornell allow researchers to better study language acquisition in children. (Oct. 31, 2011)
Computerized text analysis of scientific papers in the arXiv repository shows that many authors use text from previous papers of their own and others, not always with attribution.
Events on campus this week include an introduction to Cornell Cinema, the Dump and Run Sale, library exhibitions all about Cornell, and a survey of art prints at the Johnson Museum.
Events this week include Cider Week tours and tastings at Cornell Orchards; a party for Uris Library turning 125; concerts by Sphinx Virtuosi and the Cornell orchestras; and films about artists.
An academic symposium, “Universities and the Search for Truth,” held Aug. 24 in Bailey Hall, was part of the celebrations of Martha E. Pollack’s inauguration as Cornell’s 14th president.