What would Cornell Reunion Weekend be without video portraits of the lives of graduates from the College of Architecture, Art and Planning (AAP) by videographers Phil and Maddy Handler?
A large-scale dust storm on Mars is preventing light from reaching the two rovers, and if the skies continue to darken, Spirit and Opportunity could run out of power, say Cornell professors Jim Bell and Steve Squyres. (July 26, 2007)
Events this summer include a Fuertes Observatory viewing of the passing of Venus between the sun and the Earth, a six-week Latin dance series, and the 'Collecting Imagination' lecture and exhibition. (May 31, 2012)
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.
The Department of English has established the M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professorship in honor of the renowned Cornell professor emeritus. Literary critic Sandra M. Gilbert '57 has accepted the inaugural professorship for the spring 2007 semester.
More than 350 cancer survivors and guests were treated to a chicken barbecue provided by volunteer staff at the Hotel School and Statler Hotel at the American Cancer Society's annual Relay for Life, July 13. (July 17, 2007)
The seventh Cornell Council for the Arts Individual Grants exhibition opens Jan. 11 at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art on the Cornell University campus. The exhibition features the work of nine artists who were awarded the grants in either 1992, 1993 or 1994.
Events on campus this week include physicist Robert Lang on origami; a recital with violinist Midori; a reading by poet Dana Gioia and a play at the Schwartz Center about pain and friendship.
'The Humboldt Current,' written by Cornell history professor Aaron Sachs, is an intellectual history of the impact of 19th-century explorer Alexander von Humboldt on American culture and science, particularly American environmentalism.