Steve Reich '57, whose "Double Sextet" won the Pulitzer Prize in 2009, spoke with self-deprecating humor about his music and his life at age 80 during the Olin Lecture June 9 at Bailey Hall. The event was a highlight of Reunion.
Hirokazu Miyazaki, professor of anthropology and director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, spoke to the Chronicle about an upcoming conference and its theme of collaboration.
Nominations are being accepted through Feb. 28 for two new employee awards - an individual excellence award and a management award - created in response to feedback from last year's Employee Survey.
The Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research hosted a Flash Science! speaking competition to give early-career plant scientists experience talking to a general audience May 5.
Cornell University Library's copy of the Emancipation Proclamation will be displayed Feb. 11-18 in Kroch Library as part of the exhibition 'Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation at 150.'
Associate professor of English Philip Lorenz studies the representations of sovereignty and power in the work of William Shakespeare and two other Renaissance playwrights in his new book, "The Tears of Sovereignty."