Amid the challenges of shifting to virtual learning, students and faculty found opportunities for innovation, connection and intellectual growth. Here are snapshots of six courses that took creative approaches to their online formats.
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.
Visionary animated filmmakers Timothy and Stephen Quay visited campus for an exhibition of their film sets and decor, screenings of their work and classes with art and film students.
University Archivist Elaine Engst and historian Carol Kammen discussed how blacks and Jews were simultaneously 'part and apart' of the Cornell student body from the beginning in New York, Jan. 26.
Scholars, librarians, publishers and foundation officers discussed the future of scholarly exchange in the humanities at a forum on academic publishing Nov. 7-8 in A.D. White House. (Nov. 11, 2008)
In the second year of the Cornell Library's Information Competency Initiative, instructors once again pair up with librarians to teach students better research skills. (June 19, 2009)
A fifth-century mosaic of a lioness attacking an ibex, donated to Cornell by M.H. (Mike) Abrams, now graces the entrance of Goldwin Smith Hall, where Abrams wrote his acclaimed books of literary criticism.