Steven Stucky, the Given Foundation Professor of Music Emeritus, has died. The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer and founder of Ensemble X mentored emerging composers for decades at Cornell.
More than 100 economics majors read “The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist’s Guide to Success in Business and Life” over winter break. The department also offered credit to students to write papers about the book.
The Society for the Humanities will hold its annual theme conference Oct. 23-24 in A.D. White House. Titled “Celebrating Society@50: Time, on the Critical Edge,” it features international speakers.
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon and Dagmawi Woubshet, associate professors of English, discussed their ongoing collaborative poetry translation project May 3 in Klarman Hall.
Cornell will mark the launch of its access to the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archives with a talk by columnist and Rwandan genocide expert Philip Gourevitch '86, Nov. 3.
Professor John Cawley has been named the next director of the long-standing Cornell in Washington program, which will also move organizationally into the new Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy as he takes the helm July 1.
Eugene O'Neill's 1924 play "All God’s Chillun Got Wings," mounted by the Department of Performing and Media Arts, plays April 29-May 7 at Cornell's Schwartz Center.
Jonathan Lunine, professor in the Physical Sciences at Cornell University, comments on the upcoming launch of the BepiColombo probes, a European-Japanese mission to Mercury.
"Forms, Figures and Difference: A Conference in Honor of Fredric Bogel" will include presentations of new work and panels that reflect and develop Bogel’s contribution to literary theory Nov. 4-5.
