Several Cornell Library donors talked about the thrill of building specialized collections at a Cornell Library Salon March 16 at the Grolier Club in New York City. (March 22, 2010)
The Department of Near Eastern Studies will launch an Intensive Arabic Program in the fall, with a full semester of language study on the Cornell campus and a semester living and studying in Jordan. (Jan. 22, 2009)
Associate professor Riché Richardson recently spent a week in Paris as a cultural envoy. She gave talks, and her art quilts depicting Barack Obama, Josephine Baker and Simone de Beauvoir were exhibited. (Jan. 22, 2009)
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Díaz, M.F.A. '95, will visit campus in February to kick off a yearlong 'Centennial Plus Five Celebration of Creative Writing at Cornell.' (Jan. 21, 2009)
Scholars, artists and graduate students are engaging in collaborative initiatives in the digital humanities, with support from Cornell's Society for the Humanities. (Sept. 23, 2010)
Michael Kammen, the Newton C. Farr Professor of American History and Culture at Cornell, has been honored by the Library of Virginia with an award for his 1999 nonfiction book, Robert Gwathmey: The Life and Art of a Passionate Observer, published by the University of North Carolina Press.
Daniel Ellsberg, the Cold War hardliner turned antiwar activist who brought the Pentagon Papers to the nation's attention, will deliver a free public talk titled "Abu Ghraib, Vietnam and Empire" on Oct. 6, at 7:30 p.m. in Barnes Hall Auditorium.
The expansion will enhance the art education of the entire community and give visitors of all ages a better understanding of other cultures, other centuries and other values, says museum director Frank Robinson. (May 15, 2008)
Author Joyce Carol Oates lectured Aug. 5 in Statler Hall on the lives and creative motivations of famous writers including Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Ernest Hemingway and Emily Dickinson. (Aug. 7, 2009)
Events on campus this week include actor Joshua Malina, a figure skating competition at Lynah Rink, Local Fair at Mann Library, the Ithaca Fantastic Film Festival and International Education Week.