Assistant professor of art Michael Ashkin has received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation supporting his upcoming solo sculpture exhibition in Vienna, Austria. (April 30, 2009)
Chuck Close and James Siena '79 critiqued each others' works in a discussion of process and art making at the Eli Broad Lecture, held Dec. 5 in Manhattan. (Dec. 13, 2012)
President David Skorton, Dean Peter Lepage and donors Seth '79 and Beth Klarman celebrated the groundbreaking May 23 for Klarman Hall, the first new building for the humanities on central campus in 108 years.
Cornell and Columbia University libraries will collaboratively support Slavic and East European collection development at both institutions. (Sept. 16, 2010)
Lorraine Fitzmaurice '13 will conduct the Dec. 5 concert at Sage Chapel, 'War and Politics: The Dirty Side of Early Music.' She is passionate about the back history of the pieces she works on. (Dec. 3, 2012)
Herbert Deinert, professor emeritus of German studies, died Aug. 4 at age 79. A friend and mentor to his students, he was a noted scholar of German literature and intellectual history.
Archives at the ILR School and the University of Warwick, U.K., seek input from Yiddish speakers as translators of documents to keep the language, and labor history, alive. (Nov. 29, 2012)
Steven Strogatz, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Applied Mathematics, will speak on “Six Degrees of Separation” Sunday, April 26, 1-2:15 p.m. at Bailey Hall, as part of Charter Day.
To engage teens in STEM fields through fashion design, Cornell offered a weeklong course, “Smart Clothing, Smart Girls: Engineering through Apparel Design,” July 14-18 to 33 middle school girls.