A team from Cornell has won the Ed Bacon Competition, a student urban design challenge, for the second straight year, with a plan for an international exposition in Philadelphia in 2026. (Dec. 10, 2010)
After hundreds of performances by thousands of students, the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts is still a very young member of the Cornell family, celebrating its 20th anniversary. (Jan. 16, 2009)
Events on campus this week include '60s psychedelic films with live music, book talks on edible bugs, bad decisions and privacy; Darwin Days and a jazz concert by Cuban pianist Alfredo Rodriguez.
The Triple Helix, founded by Cornell students in 2004, is now at 27 schools worldwide and has a new online journal to supplement the semiannual print journals focusing on science, society and law. (May 6, 2010)
Cornell's entomology collection in Mann Library and the Comstock Memorial Library of Entomology will be united under one roof as the Comstock library facility closes. (May 3, 2010)
Gifts totaling $12 million will establish three endowed senior professorships in the humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences, with support from an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation challenge grant. (Dec. 1, 2010)
Shawkat Toorawa, associate professor of Arabic and Islamic studies, will help develop a comprehensive new Library of Arabic Literature, with English translations of classical and other Arabic works. (Dec. 1, 2010)
Events this week include classical and jazz concerts, a PBS film on deer at Plantations, a German studies conference and an exhibition, open house and film for May Day.
Jay Walker '77, founder of Priceline.com, kicked off an exhibit of rare artifacts from his collection with a Reunion lecture on why imagination has been the driving force behind human invention.
Cornell Professor Doug Antczak '69 discussed hybrids and chimeras, real and imagined, and how some myths are coming closer to reality with the help of modern science, June 9 during Reunion.