Events this week include faculty authors discussing careers and new ways of giving, a panel on world development, guest filmmakers showing their work, and a song cycle based on female characters in Greek tragedy.
The Atkinson Center is awarding more than $1.3 million in seed grants to support roughly a dozen interdisciplinary research collaborations at Cornell that address key sustainability challenges.
Known for its role in relieving depression, the neurochemical serotonin may help the brain execute instant, appropriate behaviors in emergency situations, according to a new Cornell study Feb. 1 in Science.
Kim Brown Bixler ’91 entertained a Statler Auditorium crowd July 10 with stories of growing up in the only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home in Rochester, N.Y.
Events on campus this week include sesquicentennial exhibitions of fossils, plaster casts and a variety of objects, documents and artifacts tied to Cornell's history; and Argentinian tango practice.
Events this week include the LEGO Expo in Duffield Hall, a Science Cabaret on bread for locavores, folk music and guitar lessons, films, and a reception for new exhibitions at the Johnson Museum.
A.D. White Professor Lowery Stokes Sims, curator at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, spoke on curating the Global Africa Project March 29 at the Johnson Museum. (April 1, 2011)
James Wells Gair, Ph.D. '63, a professor of linguistics emeritus who did pioneering work on South Asian languages and their relation to other languages, died Dec. 10 in Ithaca at age 88.
The Intergroup Dialogue Project has expanded its engagement with the Cornell community with workshops tailored to professional students and academic advisers, and a new podcast.
A.E. Stallings, award-winning poet and translator, will present three lectures, Oct. 15, 17 and 18, as one of this year's Messenger lecturers. (Oct. 4, 2012)