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)
Cornell will test its emergency notification systems at 12:10 p.m. Wednesday, April 14. These systems include the sirens/public address system and voice and text messaging. (April 8, 2010)
Writer Elie Wiesel, a Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor, will speak in Cornell's Bailey Hall April 29 at 6 p.m. Tickets are free from the Willard Straight Hall and Clinton House box offices. (April 7, 2010)
Professor of performing and media arts Bruce Levitt was awarded Cornell's Engaged Scholar Prize for his community-engaged work, including facilitating a theater group at Auburn Correctional Facility.
Associate professor of Africana studies Noliwe Rooks advocated adoption of a second Emancipation Proclamation to ensure U.S. racial integrations at a June 7 Reunion talk.
A $3.8 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation will fund a new research project on hope and optimism, co-directed by Cornell philosophy professor Andrew Chignell.
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)
Jane Marie Law, associate professor of Japanese religion, explains how religion relates to sustainability, in a Dec. 6 talk sponsored by the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future. (Dec. 12, 2012)
Events on campus include films about the Voyager mission and The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper;” a musical version of Homer’s “Odyssey,” Science on Tap with Mason Peck on accessible space travel; and a talk on medieval images of the heavens with author and art historian Benjamin Anderson.