Events at Cornell this week include an award-winning play set in an alternate future; new films at Cornell Cinema; student winners of a playwriting competition; and a discussion of manga at Olin Library.
Andy Sheng ’20 won the 14th annual Cornell Concerto Competition, Dec. 10 in Barnes Hall, with a Beethoven piano concerto. A physics, math and music major, he will perform the piece with the Cornell Symphony Orchestra in March.
The Cornell Small Farms Program is preparing the next generation of farmers and ranchers to succeed with a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick '09 will discuss the Ithaca Plan: A Public Health and Safety Approach to Drugs and Drug Policy at noon Thursday, Sept. 29, in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room.
Associate professor of architecture Arthur Ovaska, B.Arch. ’74, died March 26 in Ithaca. He was 67. Ovaska served on the Cornell faculty for more than three decades.
Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life, expressed his condolences to the family, friends and colleagues of first-year MBA student Jason Thomas, who passed away.