In 2012-13, Cornell will offer 13 University Courses designed to teach students to think from the perspectives of multiple disciplines, across departments and among diverse fields of study. (April 19, 2012)
'Cornell University,' by Richard H. Penner, professor emeritus of hotel administration, traces the university's history in 128 pages with 200 vintage photographs, mostly from library archives.
Exiled Georgian writer Irakli Kakabadze taught students this semester about the use of nonviolent conflict resolution and the creative arts to resolve political and social conflicts. (April 13, 2010)
Vladimir Nabokov's passion for science and art is kept alive via a cross-departmental collaboration in the course Reading Nabokov, which includes a lecture and demonstration at the Cornell Insect Collection. (Oct. 28, 2011)
The Music and Medicine Initiative, a partnership between the Juilliard School and Weill Cornell, gives medical students the chance to continue their musical lives. The spring concert was held March 10 at Lincoln Center.
National Endowment for the Humanities Chair William Adams spoke on the past and future of the humanities in Klarman Hall Feb. 24. He said this is a moment of increasing pressure for the field.
Linguist Gillian Ramchand explained how language is used to better understand human cognition when she gave a humanities lecture April 14 on campus. (April 27, 2011)