Professor Morten Christiansen challenges the long-held theory that human language stems from a genetic blueprint. Instead, he says, the neural machinery used for language likely predates the emergence of language itself. (Jan. 22, 2009)
'Release' was just published online. The book is a collaborative effort between students in Tamar Carroll's fall 2009 service-learning course and young women in the Lansing Residential Center. (April 1, 2010)
The Light in Winter Festival of Science and the Arts is Jan. 23-25 on campus and other venues in Ithaca. The festival showcases cutting-edge ideas through theater, lectures, music and multimedia events.
Events this week include Mayfest chamber music concerts, student films, a lecture on dinosaurs, a 'Cosmos' campus screening, a Science Cabaret on fertility and a wellness celebration.
Events on campus this week include A.D. White Professor-at-Large Hélène Cixous, a student research symposium, a lecture on saving the planet, witchcraft films and a poster exhibition, and an international organ competition.
More than 70 students showed off their original designs at 'Once Upon a Runway,' the 26th annual Cornell Design League fashion show, at Barton Hall, March 13.
Twelve students, the pilot group in the Intensive Arabic Program, are speaking and writing in Arabic this semester while engaging with the culture and studying at a university in Amman, Jordan. (March 15, 2010)
Cornell horticulture students created an indoors grass art installation of a larger-than-life portrait of Mohandas ('Mahatma') Gandhi in the Mann Library lobby during finals week. (Dec. 23, 2008)
Events on campus this week include a roundtable discussion of art repatriation, Indian cooking secrets at the Plantations, a classic American Cinema series, and Ke$ha concert ticket sales.
The late Erna Gramse, MP '33, a longtime librarian and a graduate chemistry student at Cornell during the Great Depression, has bequeathed a gift to Clark Physical Sciences Library. (March 1, 2010)