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.
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.'
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.