Linguistics scholar Amanda Miller is doing research with high-speed ultrasound technology to help her and fellow researchers successfully record and classify clicks in an endangered African language. (Oct. 21, 2009)
A July 23 ceremony honored Davy Hoy, of 'Give My Regards to Davy' fame, when his grandson donated a historical baseball, missing from campus since 1922, to Cornell Library. (July 25, 2008)
Events on campus this week include the Mayfest chamber music festival; a reading by graduating MFA writers; Museum Day at the Johnson Museum of Art; and a lecture on the art of birdsong.
English professors discussed the work and influence of poet A.R. Ammons and alumni Thomas Pynchon, Loida Maritza Perez and Manuel Munoz in a scholarly panel on Cornell writers March 4. (March 10, 2009)
An archaeological team led by Sturt Manning has found proof that hunter-gatherers began to form agricultural settlements on Cyprus half a millennium earlier than previously believed. (Oct. 20, 2010)
Professor Emeritus Walter LaFeber pondered the true role of professors while reflecting on the late Carl Becker's (1873-1945) writings on the same topic at an Oct. 13 talk to students. (Oct. 18, 2010)
Events this week include a community panel with police, hip-hop artists and scholars; an Oscar party; Karl Pillemer on making love last; plays at the Schwartz Center and films by Amie Siegel.
On Sept. 17 in San Francisco, artist Maya Lin unveiled the first component of her serial art installation on species loss, which uses sounds and videos from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. (Sept. 17, 2009)
Humanists writing on German topics are gaining a new channel for publication with Signale, a book series based at Cornell that aims to become a sustainable model for humanities scholarship.
More than 100 City and Regional Planning alumni will return to campus Oct. 15-16 to celebrate the 75th anniversary of planning at Cornell, with events including alumni panels and an exhibit. (Oct. 6, 2010)