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)
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)
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 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)
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)
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)
In its summer 2007 fiction issue, The Atlantic magazine included Cornell in its list of the leading U.S. graduate writing programs, citing the quality of the program's alumni and faculty, its selectivity and its resources. (Aug. 6, 2007)
Three Cornell graduate student writers and a Weill Cornell M.D. read their original verse as part of the sixth annual Poem in Your Pocket Day, April 17 in New York City's Bryant Park. (April 18, 2008)