Third-year Cornell Law School student Michael Zuckerman '09 won three national awards for his article, 'The Offshoring of American Government.' (Jan. 6, 2009)
Events on campus include a Chinese fashion exhibit, a Phi Beta Kappa talk by Kenneth McClane, a Beethoven concert, a lecture on natural medicines of ancient Greece, and 'Ideas for a Better World.'
In the late 19th century, Cornell students enjoyed visually striking class lectures and extracurricular talks thanks to lantern slides – 4-by-3.25-inch projected glass slides that illustrated all subjects.
Cathy Caruth, the M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor, discussed archiving and erasing history and memory in the works of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Derrida,during a lecture May 6. (May 12, 2010)
In an interview April 26, Hunter R. Rawlings III, Cornell president emeritus and professor emeritus of classics, discussed "pinch-hitting" as interim president and some of the challenges ahead for Cornell and higher education.
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)
Assistant Professor of English Ernesto Quinonez read from and recalled the book tour for his first novel 'Bodega Dreams' at the final Literary Luncheon of the semester Dec. 2.
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)
Events at Cornell include free concerts, lectures and performances; an intensive workshop on grape-growing and winemaking, an outdoor screening of 'Psycho' and the annual Staff Development Day.
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)