Cornell's undergraduate architecture program received top ranking - its fourth No. 1 ranking in five years - in the annual survey conducted by DesignIntelligence magazine. (Jan. 14, 2009)
Sage Wednesdays, a new program of Cornell United Religious Work, will be held weekly from 12:15 to 1:15 p.m. and will replace Sage Chapel Sunday afternoon vesper services. (Aug. 26, 2008)
The Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences has awarded five grants, from creating an online collection of Cornell's plaster casts to digitizing 25,000 pages of Nepali texts.
Events on campus this week include "Casablanca" and other Winter Break films, a leading Swiss orchestra, a book party for Alice Fulton's new poetry collection and a talk on the human development of killers.
The Truman Capote Trust has awarded the Cornell English department a $30,000 Truman Capote Lectureship in Creative Writing grant for a graduate student.
The Cornell Council for the Arts will support 41 projects by Cornell artists, academic units and organizations on campus in academic year 2012-13. (Oct. 25, 2012)
Three new assistant professors - in the fields of the history of art, classics and music - have launched an interdisciplinary working group on medieval cosmology that will also offers seminars and lectures.
The Department of Performing and Media Arts presents "Mother of Exiles/Madre de Migrantes," commissioned from playwright Elaine Romero, April 5-6 and April 12-13 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
Events at Cornell include "Ask an Astronomer," classic films in the Cinema Under the Stars series and a variety of free summer lectures, performances and concerts.