First-year DMA graduate student composer Tonia Ko is one of 16 recipients of this year's American Academy of Arts and Letters awards in music, along with Steve Burke, DMA '01.
The 2013 Locally Grown Dance Festival, May 1-4 at the Schwartz Center, will feature collaborations on the theme of risk by student and faculty artists from Cornell and Ithaca College.
Events on campus this week include a roundtable discussion of art repatriation, Indian cooking secrets at the Plantations, a classic American Cinema series, and Ke$ha concert ticket sales.
"Our New View of Pluto," a presentation by two scientists on the New Horizons mission, is set for Dec. 2 at 7:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium. The event is free and open to the public.
Genes in an area of the brain that is relatively similar in all vertebrates appear to regulate how organisms coordinate and shift their behaviors, a new study finds.
An international team of researchers, including a Cornell cognitive scientist, reports physiological evidence showing how the brain combines words into phrases in real time during reading.