Professor of classics and history of art Verity Platt is a lead researcher on the Ancient Lives Project, exploring the reception - often imagined - of classical poetry and art and their creators.
On April 26, Professor Ross Brann delivered his 'last lecture,' which focused on the importance of the personal life journey, and touched on culture, Mediterranean travel and his own life. (April 28, 2010)
Students will have the opportunity to learn from two new A.D. White Professors-at-Large: cultural critic Rebecca Solnit and conservationist Jeffrey McNeely, who were appointed to six-year terms. (Sept. 8, 2009)
To journey to Cornell for starting the fall semester in the university's early years, train travel, ships and steamers served as viable options for arriving on campus.
One hundred years ago Hu Shih, Class of 1914, donated a collection of 300 Chinese books to Cornell Library to benefit future Chinese students' study. (Dec. 15, 2011)
The arguments we have throughout our lives help form our ethical consciousness, anthropologist Webb Keane said in his Nov. 9 Arts and Sciences Humanities Lecture. (Nov. 23, 2010)
Howard Evans, professor emeritus of biomedical sciences, gives biweekly talks on campus about natural history, from antlers and fossils to rocks and minerals. He also speaks at area public schools. (Nov. 23, 2010)
Architecture students went to Russia in October as part of a fall semester studio meant to inspire new ways of looking at culture, and completed projects including pavilions in Ithaca and Moscow.
In an inaugural competition named for Rabbi Harold I. Saperstein '31, 14 students wrote and delivered sermons related to contemporary social justice issues this spring. (June 10, 2011)
M.H. 'Mike' Abrams, Class of 1916 Professor of English Emeritus, discussed the four dimensions of six poems by poets ranging from Emily Dickinson to A.R. Ammons at a lecture Nov. 18. (Nov. 22, 2010)