Events this week include a local literary festival with events featuring faculty members; a free concert by the Cornell Symphony Orchestra, Chorus and Glee Club; and a 3-D feature at Cornell Cinema.
Scholar Stephanie W. Jamison will speak on “Adulterous Woman to Be Eaten by Dogs: Women and Law in Ancient India” as a part of the University Lecture Series. The talk, Sept. 21 at 4:30 p.m. in Cornell’s Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall, is free and open to the public.
Instructors of the six major national languages of Southeast Asia – Burmese, Indonesian, Khmer, Tagalog, Thai and Vietnamese – will gather at Cornell Sept. 8-10 for the Southeast Asian Language Teaching: New Directions Conference.
Applications are due April 19 for College of Arts and Sciences summer experience grants, which are receiving alumni support to help students take unpaid summer internships.
Laura Jones-Wilson, M.S. ’10, Ph.D. ’12, learned the term ‘aerospace engineer’ from watching ‘Star Trek’ episodes. With a Cornell education, she has landed her dream job at NASA.
A $30 million commitment from David R. Atkinson ’60 and Patricia Atkinson will name a new multidisciplinary building on campus, intended to foster innovative and collaborative research in key university priority areas.
The Class of 2022 will make contributions to the world that Ezra Cornell could never have imagined, President Martha E. Pollack said at Commencement, held May 28 at Schoellkopf Field.