Photographic images, with their immediacy and ability to convey highly complex narratives, had a powerful impact on storytelling in Weimar Germany, said Patrizia McBride, at a colloquium March 5.
Events on campus this week include martial arts in theory and practice, a grand tour of Rome at the Johnson Museum, and 'Faust' with live musical accompaniment Halloween night in Sage Chapel. (Oct. 25, 2012)
A tradition of cosmology research on campus has given birth to a vigorous effort by a new generation of cosmologists to understand the thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang.
Professor Scott Tucker has announced that he will leave Cornell to become the artistic director of the Choral Arts Society in Washington, D.C. (April 3, 2012)
S. Kay Obendorf, who retired in June after 50 years at Cornell in the College of Human Ecology, was honored Sept. 8 with the unveiling of a quarter-scale model of “PolyForm,” an architectural art installation by Jenny Sabin at Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.
Four finalists have been named in the search for a new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The candidates, who all have ties to the college, will be on campus the weeks of March 4 and 11.
Cornell's 146th Graduation Weekend highlights include the Senior Convocation Address by actor Ed Helms, who portrayed the fictional alumnus Andy Bernard '93 on TV's 'The Office,' and President David Skorton's Commencement Address.
Winfried Denk, Ph.D. ’89, Karel Svoboda ’88, and David Tank, M.S. ’80, Ph.D. ’83, have won the Brain Prize for their groundbreaking work with two-photon microscopy. All three graduates worked in the laboratory of Watt Webb.
Current students have identified the first 25 members of what they hope will be a permanent hall of fame to honor Cornellians who have given time and energy to human rights causes.