Events on campus this week include Cornell Library's 'Remembering Lincoln at Gettysburg,' the Alloy Orchestra at Cornell Cinema, a coffee research program and a book talk with Aaron Sachs.
Andy Noel, the Meakem*Smith Director of Athletics and Physical Education, announced Richard A. Johnson '57 and Dale Reis Johnson '58 made a $1.5 million gift to the Cornell men’s tennis program.
The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program will celebrate its 25th anniversary with a symposium at Cornell Plantations March 15. The event is free and open to the public.
The Cornell Council for the Arts has announced grant awards supporting 45 student, faculty, department and program projects to be presented on campus this academic year. (Nov. 16, 2011)
Making lifelike wax molds of their own faces to replicate Roman funeral masks, Cornell researchers explored the significance of materials in the ancient practice of remembering deceased ancestors.
American novelist Toni Morrison died at the age of 88, her publisher announced Tuesday. Morrison received a master's in English from Cornell University in 1955 and was the first African-American writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. Her work, which centered around issues of black identity and race, was “masterful, purposeful, precise and challenging,” says Noliwe Rooks, professor in the Africana Studies & Research Center.
At the 'Lines of Control' March 3-4 symposium, speakers discussed how the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art exhibit by the same name addresses issues related to countries being partitioned. (March 6, 2012)
Earl Lewis, award-winning scholar and president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, spoke on "When the Past Is not the Past: Slavery and the American Psyche" April 11 in Klarman Hall.
