The Cornell Council for the Arts is accepting applications from individual artists and programs and departments at Cornell for projects to be presented in 2014-15. The application deadline is Feb. 28.
Oren Falk, associate professor of history, says he was as intrigued by the contrast in Norse Freydis stories as by how scholars have mostly ignored the sheer weirdness of the heroic version.
Educate the Vote: Presidential Election 2016 will feature a live academic debate among prominent political scientists and policy experts on key domestic policy issues Sept. 26 in Bailey Hall.
Historian Raymond Craib's "The Cry of the Renegade: Politics and Poetry in Interwar Chile" offers a vivid view of the early and difficult history of Chile’s student anarchists.
A Cornell-led collaboration used wind speed data and the measured accelerations of a golden eagle outfitted with GPS technology to show that turbulence is a source of energy that birds may use to their advantage.
The first-ever Yiddish Theater Festival in the Finger Lakes stars New York City’s New Yiddish Rep and includes four events over three nights, Sept. 8-10.
A treasure trove for scholars of philanthropy and social change is now available at Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections as the archive of The Atlantic Philanthropies has gone public.
Robert Morgan opened In A Word, a new series of talks by creative writing faculty, Nov. 19 with "History and Fiction: The Growth of an Artist – Harper Lee's 'Go Set A Watchman'."
The spring 2015 Schwartz Center schedule includes famed choreographer William Forsythe at the “Sensation, Desire, and the Moving Body,” conference and Tennessee Williams' "Glass Menagerie."
From fully autonomous berry harvesters to plant-based lupini bean protein bars, the startups competing for $3 million in prize money at this year’s Grow-NY Food and Agriculture Competition are bringing revolutionary innovations to market.