The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies has awarded four seed grants selected from a pool 11 proposals as part of the Winter 2009 Seed Grant Competition.
Undergraduates and graduate students are learning about museum practice from a variety of disciplinary perspectives in courses partnering the Johnson Museum with other academic resources at Cornell.
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)
Events this week feature four-hand piano scholar-performers, undergraduates' bird research on the Isles of Shoals, new documentaries at Cornell Cinema and interactive tours at the Johnson Museum.
Events on campus and locally this week include Christmas Vespers services at Sage Chapel, Stephen Sondheim’s “Company” at the Schwartz Center and a Science Cabaret with ornithologist Kim Bostwick.
Doctoral student Meredith Ramirez Talusan, M.A. ’11, who studies comparative literature, serendipitously taught a Filipino woman how to knit. A year later she started a social enterprise that now employs 25 knitters in the Philippines.
Linguistics professor Wayles Browne says the use of the Serbian, Bulgarian and Macedonian languages can have specific cultural connotations that fuel ethnic tensions.
More than 50 middle and high school teachers were on campus June 24-26 for an International Studies Summer Institute at Cornell called The Cultural Geography of Water.
Dutch artist Berndnaut Smilde, who conjures clouds in empty exhibition spaces, gave a public lecture on campus April 21 and unveiled his latest work, created in Milstein Hall last weekend.