Events this week include a winter party at Cornell Cinema, salsa dances for Haiti, a literary lunch, a poetry reading, Darwin Days at PRI, a Johnson Museum reception, and a conference on poverty and jobs. (Feb. 4, 2010)
On Feb. 22, the College of Arts and Sciences brought together faculty working on philosophy of mind in a Big Ideas panel, part of the New Century for the Humanities celebration.
The assistant professor of government has been awarded this year's R.O. Keohane Award for the best research article by an untenured scholar published in the journal International Organization. (Aug. 11, 2010)
Some people are genetically predisposed to see the world darkly, according to a study from the laboratory of a researcher now on the faculty of Cornell’s College of Human Ecology.
Art students worked toward their B.F.A. degrees this year with studio and seminar classes, visits to museums and artists' studios, internships, meeting curators and exhibiting their work at AAP NYC.
Phillip E. Lewis. Lewis, emeritus professor of French literature and former dean of the Cornell College of Arts and Sciences, discussed ways to raise the role of the humanities in public life.
Historian Edward Baptist provides an account of slavery's role in America becoming a global superpower in his new book, "The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism."
Cornell's East Asian Studies celebrates six decades of developing multicultural academic programs throughout the world with a 60th Anniversary Symposium and other events, March 4-5. (Feb. 25, 2011)