Epoch, a literary journal based in the English department at Cornell for the past 50 years, will have four of its stories included in Prized Stories 1997: The O. Henry Awards, one of the nation's most prestigious collections of short fiction.
The inspirations for the six original pieces to be performed at Dance Concert '97 at Cornell are as varied as the performers themselves -- who include a veterinary student and recent high school graduate. Cornell's Department of Theatre, Film and Dance will present its annual dance concert this weekend.
Robert J. Swieringa, a professor in the practice of accounting at the School of Management at Yale University and a former member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board, has been named the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean of the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell.
"There will be no genuine third party, and certainly no real transformation into a multiparty system, without a constitutional revolution," says Theodore J. Lowi, the John L. Senior Professor of American Institutions at Cornell.
Cornell's Law School will present "Arbiters or Arbitrary? Redefining the Role of the Jury" on March 7 and 8. All sessions are open to the public and will take place in MacDonald Moot Court Room of Myron Taylor Hall.
Diferencias, a composition written by Roberto Sierra, Cornell associate professor of music, will make its world premiere March 8 in a performance by the Cornell University Wind Ensemble under the direction of Mark Scatterday. The free program will begin at 8:15 p.m. in Bailey Hall.
A coalition of presidents from nine independent and public colleges and universities released the following statement in Albany today (Feb. 26) to stress the importance of higher education.
Do you want to give kids the gift of a green thumb? Learn how to teach children about gardening at a two-day educational symposium, "Education in Blossom: The School Garden - Community Partnership," July 31 to Aug. 1, at the State University of New York College at Cortland, hosted by the college and Cornell.
Robert Fitzpatrick, dean of the School of the Arts at Columbia University, who will be the keynote speaker at the Cornell symposium "Creating Minds: Artistic Intelligence Across the Disciplines" to be held Feb. 28 and March 1.
Could an ancient plant rooted in thousands of years of Chinese tradition provide an economic boost to New York forest owners? A new cooperative team of researchers at Cornell and the North American Ginseng Assoc. is going to find out.