Events on campus this week include a lecture on plant wisdom, heavy metal fashion, a Russian poet, films by Orson Welles and a panel on Latinos at Cornell.
Philosopher Jill North, a proponent of wave function realism, has published an essay titled “The Structure of a Quantum World," included in a new book of essays on the metaphysics of quantum mechanics.
Events this week include space on film and live music in Sage Chapel; a screening of "1984;" a lecture by Mellon Foundation President Earl Lewis; book talks and the Centrally Isolated Film Festival.
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.
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.
Christopher Hogwood, an influential figure in period music and performance, makes his first visit to campus as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large this month.
More than 100 scholars, artists and clinicians will visit campus Aug. 10-14 for a joint conference of the Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies and the International Association for Jungian Studies. (July 6, 2010)
Student filmmakers and theater artists can add sound to their projects more easily with upgraded sound studio facilities in the Schwartz Center. (Nov. 7, 2012)
In class projects, landscape architecture and real estate students teamed up to create designs of the built environment for the CornellNYC Tech campus. (April 30, 2012)