Events this week include a student music fundraiser, Joseph Lin plays Bach, Sugarplum Fairy at the Johnson, 'Icarus Dreamt,' ceramics sale, Gen. Anthony Zinni, lecture on Judaism and artist Michael Ashkin.
Civil rights activists Andrew Young, Vincent Harding and Dorothy Cotton will speak at the first Dorothy Cotton Institute Gala Dinner Tuesday, Dec. 10, when the three will receive Martin Luther King Jr. Awards from the Fellowship of Reconciliation.
A new book by English Professor Fredric V. Bogel argues for a new kind of literary analysis to be used in addition to the approaches that have come to dominate the field in the last 50 years.
Influential composer and conductor Karel Husa, who taught at Cornell for 38 years and conducted major orchestras as well as campus ensembles, died Dec. 14 in North Carolina. He was 95.
Architect Jenny Sabin has created a temporary outdoor installation that functions as a work of art and provides shade, seating and cooling for visitors to the Museum of Modern Art PS1 in Long Island City.
Cornell's educational programs and support for all employees, as well as number of women in executive positions, have earned it a place as one of the nation's top nonprofit employers for executive women.
Weill Cornell Medical College's state-of-the-art Belfer Research Building has achieved LEED Gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council for its sustainable design and green construction.
“Firing the Canon,” a College of Arts and Sciences sesquicentennial exhibit, explores how Cornell’s prized collection of plaster casts was “embraced, defaced and dethroned.”
The 13th annual Diversity Update Conference will feature speakers from Cornell and such organizations as MIT, National Science Foundation, JP Morgan Chase and Ithaca College. Registration ends Nov. 8.
Five airline industry leaders will talk about the issues confronting their industry; at the 80th annual, student-led Hotel Ezra Cornell (HEC) at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration, April 7-9.