Mary Ochs '79 is the new director of Albert R. Mann Library, Cornell University Library has announced. Ochs has served as interim director since October 2008. (April 20, 2009)
Dean Krafft, a veteran of the computer science department, has been named the first chief technology strategist for Cornell University Library. (July 7, 2008)
Events on campus in July include free lectures, concerts and performances; Staff Development Day, classic films outdoors on Willard Straight Terrace and a summer earth science symposium.
A grant is enabling the Cornell University Library to restore and digitize 17th to 19th century pamphlets that record trials and society's attitudes to issues of the day. (April 13, 2011)
Music industry pioneers traced the evolution of hip-hop from its humble beginnings to commercial dominance during a sold-out discussion in Manhattan April 17.
Artist Lily Yeh described community art as a method to help mend broken communities Oct. 24 as part of the 40th anniversary of the Cornell-affiliated Center for Transformative Action. (Oct. 27, 2011)
Events this week include the Mini Locally Grown Dance Festival, a lecture by Constitutional law scholar Erwin Chemerinsky and a concert by Boston singer-songwriter Amanda McCarthy.
The Fourth Eurasian Archaeology Conference Oct. 11-13 explored the uneven process of historical transformation and the temporal rhythms of social life. (Oct. 30, 2012)
A panel discussion on Cornell's Engaged Learning and Research Oct. 27 focused on the collaboration with a theater group at the Auburn Correctional Facility. (Oct. 29, 2012)
Historian and Cornell lecturer Carol Kammen described Oct. 20 how Cornell's early architecture reflected the different visions Ezra Cornell and Andrew White had as Cornell founders. (Oct. 24, 2011)