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.
Cornell's baroque organ is the first in the world to be equipped with wind systems that let it reproduce sounds exactly as Bach and other period composers intended. (Sept. 11, 2012)
Events this week include Cornell Orchards' Apple Spectacular, a student-made film reflecting on service in Thailand; the Cornell Orchestras playing jazz with special guests; MFA students reading poetry and fiction; and lectures on law and technology, global child welfare and the Middle East.
A Sept. 4 symposium, inspired by letters found in the Cornell University Library archives, drew on many Cornell connections to intellectual history. (Sept. 7, 2012)
The first International Fortepiano Competition held in America will be hosted by the Westfield Center for Historical Keyboard Studies at Cornell; the performances are free and open. (July 18, 2011)
Judith Byfield, Cornell associate professor of history and Africana studies, will serve in 2009-10 as vice president of the African Studies Association, an international group of scholars. (June 15, 2009)
An expansion of the Cornell and Columbia university libraries' collaboration will grant greater access to materials for students, faculty and staff of both institutions. (July 15, 2011)
Robert Isaacs has been appointed director of choral music in the Department of Music effective July 1. He will oversee all four choirs at Cornell and conduct the Cornell Glee Club and Chorus.
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.