Kip Thorne, founder of Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory, will give a talk on black holes and gravitational waves April 6, at 5 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.
Doctoral students Sri Lakshmi Sravani Devarakonda and Cheyenne Peltier have been named winners of the 2019-20 Cornelia Ye Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award.
Events this week include traditional Javanese and new electronic music, a talk on the history of synthesizers, the Locally Grown Dance Festival, a panel on Latin American violence and Slope Day.
Florian Idenburg, founder of the award-winning architecture firm SO-IL, and visiting faculty at AAP NYC, designs architecture that gives form and aesthetics to our world's most pressing questions.
Cornell President Elizabeth Garrett and Department of English faculty and staff will honor the late M. H. Abrams as a towering figure in literary and cultural studies at a memorial celebration Sept. 12 in Statler Auditorium.
The Department of Performing and Media Arts will stage one of William Shakespeare’s earliest and bloodiest plays Jan. 31 to Feb. 8 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
Events this week include a play about pioneering scientist Barbara McClintock; a concert tribute to Steven Stucky by Ensemble X; a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey In The Rock and an experimental film series.
An endowment bequeathed by Kenneth A.R. Kennedy, professor of physical anthropology at Cornell for 41 years, will fund a lecture series and visiting professorship in human evolutionary biology.
Events on campus this week include a film on a killer whale that kills; artist talks; a reading by visiting writer Cynthia Hogue and the last days of Cornell Library's Hip Hop Collection exhibition.
In her new book, history of art professor and chair Cynthia Robinson reveals the interrelation of the religious practices and visual cultures of co-existing sects in late medieval Iberia.