College Scholars in the College of Arts and Sciences who studied climate change, local food movements, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and other topics, presented their research April 17.
The 2014-15 Civic Leader Fellows will present their projects Friday, Sept. 11, at 3:30 p.m. at 102 Mann Library. The fellowship helps community leaders, students and faculty solve community needs.
Maureen Quilligan, the Department of English’s M.H. Abrams Distinguished Visiting Professor, will present “When Women Ruled the World: the Synergies of Female Sovereignty in the Renaissance” Nov. 5.
Cornell events include an adventure film festival and Oscar-nominated shorts; adaptive rock climbing; a reading by Emily Fridlund and Joanie Mackowski; and an exhibition featuring campus voices on goodness, gratitude and belonging.
Cornell's first arts biennial in 2014 will frame dynamic changes in 21st-century culture and art practice, and in nanoscale technology, with projects by faculty, students and guest artists.
A $260,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities will help Cornell University Library digitize and make available the seminal hip-hop collection of Afrika Bambaataa.
Danny Bernstein ’14 will workshop his musical theater songs for industry professionals in Los Angeles in May and has a new full-length original musical debuting at the Schwartz Center next month.
Though Glenn Morgan Parker '25 shared what it was like to take an online course as a Precollege student, thanks to the Atkinson scholarship, and how it helped prepare her for her first year at Cornell.
Time, says Shelley Wong, "is socially constructed, continually made and remade in culturally specific ways." Wong’s book project focuses on race, time and narrative.