Academy-award nominated film editor Tim Squyres ‘81 will speak on campus April 25 at Charter Day: A Festival of Ideas and Imagination, part of Cornell's sesquicentennial celebrations.
Events on campus this week include a celebration of poetry and languages, Yamatai's Pulse concert and Rhythms of China, avant-garde filmmaker Ken Jacobs and a lecture on the history of Polish Jews.
Alison Lurie will choose some of her shorter works – “things that are complete in themselves,” she said – for a reading Thursday, Sept. 19, at 4:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall.
The College of Arts and Sciences has just approved four new minors: Near Eastern studies; creative writing; minority, indigenous and third world studies; and English. (April 12, 2012)
Christopher (Kit) Dobyns '13, an Africana studies major in the College of Arts and Sciences, is the winner of a 2012 Morris K. Udall Scholarship. (April 5, 2012)
Thanks to $2 million from the Mellon Foundation, the first four Mellon Diversity fellows have arrived on campus to conduct research and attend weekly multidisciplinary seminars. (Oct. 4, 2012)
Architect Richard Meier '56, B.Arch. '57, and artist Frank Stella discussed their disciplines, their work and their friendship at the inaugural Eli Broad Lecture, Sept. 12, at the Morgan Library in Manhattan. (Sept. 19, 2011)
This spring Cornell Cinema offers patrons a new digital projection system, a new bright screen, live music and visits from directors and producers of some of the films.
Carole Boyce Davies, Kenneth McClane and filmmaker Kristy Anderson spoke at a Feb. 10 event celebrating writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston. (Feb. 15, 2011)