Cornell is a big place. Students find niches within the larger community, and musicians are no exception. Music shapes the experiences of thousands of alumni who are a special population of Cornellians.
Bruce Levitt, professor and former chair of Cornell's Department of Theatre, Film and Dance, has been named faculty director of the Cornell Council for the Arts.
This week's events include a performance by the Cornell Symphony Orchestra, music and dance at the Locally Grown Dance Festival, and dinner with Top Chef Jimmy Bradley at the Hotel School's Guest Chefs Series.
Historian Michael Kammen's two most recent books are a rare and impressive display of vocation and avocation fulfilled in service to history and to art.
Cornell archaeologist Andrew Ramage was a Harvard University graduate student when he struck gold at an excavation site in Sardis, Turkey, in 1968. Ramage's detective work led to a one-of-a-kind discovery: a gold refinery that belonged to legendary Lydian emperor King Croesus, the world's first "millionaire."
While Andrew Dickson White's role in helping to found Cornell has been rightfully celebrated, his prowess as a book collector has gotten short shrift, say Mark G. Dimunation, Cornell's curator of rare books, and Elaine D. Engst, university archivist.
Robert Fitzpatrick, dean of the School of the Arts at Columbia University, who will be the keynote speaker at the Cornell symposium "Creating Minds: Artistic Intelligence Across the Disciplines" to be held Feb. 28 and March 1.
Dog-walker's elbow, cowboy thumb, snowmobiler's back and miner's knee are among the nearly 150 conditions described in a new book, "Atlas of Occupational Markers on Human Remains," by Luigi Capasso, Kenneth A.R. Kennedy and Cynthia A. Wilczak.
Stephen Cole, professor of theater for almost 40 years at Cornell, will retire this year, leaving a legacy on campus and in the Ithaca theater scene. (Feb. 21, 2008)
From disappearing frogs and Alaskan fisheries to Gypsy herbs and West African deforestation, filmmakers will talk about their artistic visions at the third annual Environmental Film Festival Oct. 22-28.