J.P. Sniadecki, who joins the Department of Performing and Media Arts as an assistant professor in the fall, brings an anthropological perspective to cinematic art.
Making lifelike wax molds of their own faces to replicate Roman funeral masks, Cornell researchers explored the significance of materials in the ancient practice of remembering deceased ancestors.
A $650,000 bequest from the late Professor Emerita Helen L. Wardeberg will support scholarships for College of Agriculture and Life Sciences' transfer students and Mann Library services and purchases. (April 9, 2012)
A Jan. 24 reception celebrated the James McConkey Summer Fellowship in Creative Writing, which will support a second-year MFA student who is completing a thesis. (Jan. 29, 2008)
Jenna Galbut ’14, creator of the new “Humans of Cornell University” Facebook page, hopes the page, which already has more than 3,000 "likes," will promote a greater sense of community.
New research suggests that today’s young adults are fond of and have an emotional connection to the music that was popular when their parents were their age in the 1980s.
Ethics & Epistemology in the History of Philosophy, a conference Sept. 20-21 at Cornell Plantations’ Brian C. Nevin Center, will honor distinguished faculty members Gail Fine and Terence Irwin.
The Mellon Foundation has given Cornell $2 million for pre- and postdoctoral fellowships to help improve the career chances of humanities scholars from underrepresented communities.