Professors N'Dri Assie-Lumumba and Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo have each received the 2010 Distinguished Africanist Award from the New York State African Studies Association. (April 15, 2010)
A recent symposium and exhibition explored the ancient practice of spolia – using scavenged materials in new construction – and its relevance to efforts in sustainable and resilient human habitation.
Near Eastern studies professor Kim Haines-Eitzen explores how natural desert sounds influenced monastic texts, from tropes like the wind as God's voice to demons sounding like thunder.
Ghassan Hage, a cutting-edge figure in Australia's influential cultural criticism and the arts movement, will deliver a University Lecture Friday, Oct. 22, at 4:40 p.m. in Kaufmann Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall .
A variety of language-learning programs serve the needs of more than 2,000 Cornell students who traveled to 108 countries in the 2013-14 to study, research or participate in a faculty-led experience.
Andrew R. Chraplyvy and Robert W. Tkach, who have been research partners for more than two decades, will receive the $100,000 award for their research into optical fiber nonlinearities. (July 9, 2009)
Cornell University Library has received an $830,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to digitize the remaining records in its card catalog and add them to its online catalog.
Student fashion designers are sketching and making patterns, finding and fitting models, and cutting and sewing fabrics for the 31st Cornell Fashion Collective runway show, Saturday, April 11 at 8 p.m. in Barton Hall.
The Africana Studies and Research Center will host a 40th anniversary conference, 'Looking Back/Moving Forward: The Future of Africana/Black Studies,' April 15-17. (April 8, 2010)
More than 200 books published by the Negro Universities Press, reprinting rare historical materials on the black experience, have been donated to the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library.