Events this week include Béla Fleck, Edgar Meyer and Zakir Hussain in the Cornell Concert Series at Bailey Hall; a conversation with hip-hop artist, activist and scholar Akua Naru; and "Green Book" and "The Ancient Law" at Cornell Cinema.
To help improve content on women and the arts on Wikipedia and narrow that gender gap, Cornell will participate in the 2016 Wikipedia: Art + Feminism edit-a-thon, March 5.
Jeffrey Gettleman '94 has chronicled his career in journalism, his relationship with his wife, Courtenay Morris '94, and his time at Cornell in "Love, Africa."
Architecture student CoCo Tin ’19 is one of three recipients of this year’s Kohn Pedersen Fox Traveling Fellowship, given to students in their penultimate year at one of the firm’s 27 partner design schools.
Nearly 10,500 Cornellian households joined Virtual Reunion 2020, June 5-6. Content has been viewed by alumni from six continents and 77 countries, from the Class of 1937 to the Class of 2020.
Paul Fleming, professor of German studies and comparative literature, will become the Taylor Family Director of the Society for the Humanities when Timothy Murray’s term ends on June 30, 2017.
Events on campus include films about the Voyager mission and The Beatles’ “Sgt. Pepper;” a musical version of Homer’s “Odyssey,” Science on Tap with Mason Peck on accessible space travel; and a talk on medieval images of the heavens with author and art historian Benjamin Anderson.
Arthur Ashkin, Ph.D. '52, whose invention of optical tweezers revolutionized the way scientists can study and manipulate biological systems, has won a share of this year's Nobel Prize in physics.
Architect Jenny Sabin has created a temporary outdoor installation that functions as a work of art and provides shade, seating and cooling for visitors to the Museum of Modern Art PS1 in Long Island City.