Events on campus this week include a symposium on the latest cancer research, a gas drilling roundtable, a documentary on artist Anselm Kiefer, and gallery and garden talks at the Johnson Museum.
President Martha E. Pollack gave alumni a sense of her academic background, traced her path to Cornell and gave full-throated affirmations of free speech, the value of a college education and expanding opportunities in NYC.
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.
Sophocles' tragedy "Oedipus (Tyrannus)," translated and directed by professor of classics Frederick Ahl, will be performed on campus Nov. 10-12 by students in Ahl's course Ancient Theatre Performance.
Ethics & Epistemology in the History of Philosophy, a conference Sept. 20-21 at Cornell Plantations’ Brian C. Nevin Center, will honor distinguished faculty members Gail Fine and Terence Irwin.
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.
Colleagues and linguistic scholars have contributed to a book honoring Alan Nussbaum, Cornell professor of classics and linguistics, on his 65th birthday.
Bridget Saracino '11, a theater arts major in the Department of Theatre, Film and Dance, has been awarded the 2010 Edward M. Murray Committee on the Arts Scholarship. (Nov. 8, 2010)