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)
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.
Jeffrey Gettleman '94, the East Africa bureau chief for The New York Times, won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting April 16. He was cited for vivid reporting at personal peril. (April 16, 2012)
German studies professor Leslie Adelson considers the future through the lens of modern literature in a recent lecture, 'Horizons of Hope in Times of Despair.'
Students in an interdisciplinary class studied murals in New York City's El Barrio, learning about neighborhood aspects such as culture, history and preservation, and organized a new campus exhibit.
On the Cornell campus to film "Buddha, born in Nepal," a Nepalese director learns about the shortage of blondes and the plethora of snow; Cornellian "extras" learn the concerns of international students among them.