Cornell faculty member Grant Farred related his lifelong love for the Liverpool Football Club and read from his recent memoir 'Long Distance Love' at the Cornell Store March 28. (April 1, 2008)
Anne Kenney, an internationally respected expert in digital library development, has been named Cornell's Carl A. Kroch University Librarian. She has been serving as interim university librarian since February 2007. (March 31, 2008)
Colombian writer and activist Laura Restrepo, an A.D. White Professor-at-Large, discusses the state of her country and its impact on her life and art. (March 13, 2008)
From poetry to recent nonfiction to haiku; from medicine to music to dogs: Cornell President David Skorton and wife Robin Davisson shared selections from their favorite reads at Tompkins County Public Library, March 9. (March 10, 2008)
Based on the success of a $1.4 million program launched in 2001, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Cornell University an additional $1,785,000 over five years to continue postdoctoral fellowships and seminars in the humanities and social sciences.
Events on campus this week include new exhibitions at the Johnson Museum, a look at gender roles in Shakespeare plays, readings by creative writing faculty and a conference focused on Colombia.
The distinguished teaching career of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alison Lurie will be honored this month with a tribute, simply called "Readings for Alison Lurie." The event, sponsored by Cornell's Department of English and Program of Creative Writing.
Cornell physics faculty member Robert H. Lieberman goes home in his new film, 'Last Stop Kew Gardens,' a documentary about the Queens neighborhood where he grew up. (May 8, 2007)
Not long after Cornell University opened its doors, professors organized expeditions. For 150 years, the faculty and students have traveled around our globe and others.
Cornell Provost Biddy Martin announced May 24 the reappointment of Franklin W. Robinson, the Richard J. Schwartz Director of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. The appointment, which is for five years beginning July 1.