Longtime Cornell benefactor and adviser Earl Flansburgh '53, B.Arch. '54, died Feb. 3 from Parkinson's disease. A memorial service will be held Feb. 20 in Cambridge, Mass. (Feb. 11, 2009)
Sarah Song, a student at Tappan Zee High School in Orangeburg, N.Y., is the winner of the first High School Fashion Design Award from the Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design. (March 16, 2010)
Deputy Provost David Harris has announced he will take an extended leave of absence to join the Obama administration. His last day on campus will be March 19. (March 15, 2010)
Recent transfer student and horticulture enthusiast Justin Kondrat ’14 has led a project with the help of nearly 100 Cornellians to plant some 50,000 blooming flowers that spell out the word “rooted” in 10-foot letters on Libe Slope; the display will glow nightly until May 1.
Events on campus include jazz and classical performances, glass sea creatures and a fall party at the Johnson Museum, a book talk on roads in the Himalayas and a reading by poet and novelist Ron Rash.
El Salvador and Guatemala join 84 other countries that now have access to The Essential Electronic Agricultural Library project, run out of Cornell's Mann Library. (Jan. 9, 2012)
For one day only, April 23, Cornell Library is putting all four of its 17th-century folio editions of William Shakespeare's collected plays on display to celebrate the Bard's 450th birthday.
Events on campus this week include new exhibitions at the Johnson Museum, the Rhodes Symposium on gender and demographics, and a memorial tribute to film professor Don Fredericksen at Cornell Cinema.
Events on campus this week include Indigenous Peoples' Day celebrations, a screening of "Nosferatu" with live music in Sage Chapel; and exhibitions on political Americana and historic preservation.