Events on campus this week include sustainability expert/graduate student Annie Leonard with 'The Story of Stuff;' the annual Pao Bhangra show; films about bees and AIDS; the 22nd Cornell Jazz Festival and a climate readiness conference.
Events this week include Jason and Alicia Hall Moran in Barnes Hall; 'Chasing Ice' at Cornell Cinema, a community project with artists and survivors of assault, and the American Indian Program's 30th anniversary conference.
Each semester, volunteer faculty and teaching assistants teach a liberal arts curriculum free of charge to inmates at the Auburn Correctional Facility who can now work toward an associate's degree. (March 5, 2009)
The Vagina Monologues , Eve Ensler's Obie award-winning play that premiered in 1996 and addresses issues of violence against women, will be read at Cornell University on Valentine's Day.
Events on campus this week include free concerts and a Thai festival in Willard Straight Hall, a roundtable on genocide in Rwanda, a sustainability research panel and a talk on math and magic.
Paul Milstein Hall cleared its final municipal hurdle Jan. 27 with a unanimous 6-0 vote on final site plan approval from the city of Ithaca's Planning and Development Board. (Jan. 29, 2009)
"Privacy in the Age of Media" is the topic of a lecture at Cornell University by Tom Wicker, retired political columnist for The New York Times and one of America's most respected journalists, Wednesday, Oct. 25, at 4:30 p.m.
In a panel discussion Feb. 20, novelists Melissa Bank '98, Junot Diaz '95 and Julie Schumacher '86 praised Cornell's Creative Writing Program and gave advice to aspiring authors. (Feb. 23, 2009)
Celebrated poet Ruth Stone will read from her works at Cornell for the Creative Writing Program's biannual Chasen Poetry Reading Thursday, April 19, at 4 p.m. in the Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall.
A group of Cornell students and two instructors took part in a new design exchange program between the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Shanghai Jiao Tong University this summer. (Dec. 8, 2010)