Cornell's newly named Department of Performing and Media Arts (formerly Theatre, Film and Dance) has announced its lineup for next year and two new faculty members.
Artist Leo Villareal talked about creating sculptures from light at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at a public lecture Oct. 22 in Milstein Auditorium. (Oct. 24, 2012)
Peter K. Enns, professor in the Brooks School of Public Policy and in the Department of Government, has been named the Robert S. Harrison Director of the Cornell Center for Social Sciences. Enns’ three-year appointment began July 1.
In a Sept. 10 campus talk, Peter Katzenstein, Cornell's Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies, contended that the U.S. and Russia are in a Cold Peace rather than a Cold War.
In the Charter Day Weekend lecture, “Cornell and the Energy Landscape in the Age of Sustainability” April 26, professor Hector D. Abruna discussed his work to build sustainable batteries.
Cornell’s Polson Institute for Global Development will host “Reducing Campus Food Waste: Innovations and Ideas,” a lecture and workshop May 2-3 on campus.
Undergraduates from across the country are spending several weeks at Cornell this summer researching topics in accelerator physics or X-ray science thanks to two programs funded by the National Science Foundation.