A $3.8 million grant from the John Templeton Foundation will fund a new research project on hope and optimism, co-directed by Cornell philosophy professor Andrew Chignell.
Eric Nathan, DMA '12, has been selected to receive a 2012 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Award.
French and Francophone studies scholars will address challenges and opportunities for the field in a "Francophone Futures" workshop Nov. 16. The fast-growing field is key to the teaching of French and to assessing postcolonial history and studies in literature, arts and culture.
To help introduce new members of the university's faculty to the Cornell community, the Cornell Chronicle is publishing brief new-faculty profiles for the 2013-14 academic year.
Original dance work by student, alumni and faculty choreographers, along with community members and visiting artists, will be featured March 5-13 in the 2012 Locally Grown Dance Festival.
English professor Thomas Hill will deliver Cornell Plantations’ 2013 William H. and Jane Torrence Harder Lecture Aug. 28 at 5:30 p.m. in Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall, titled “Pagan and Christian Trees: From Ambrose to ‘Juniper Tree.’”
Eleven students from the Global Citizenship course in the College of Human Ecology traveled to Cuba over spring break to learn about fashion trends and consumer culture on the island.
Vivian Zayas, associate professor of psychology, and her colleagues found that people continue to be influenced by another person's appearance in a photograph even after interacting with them face-to-face.
Electrical engineering professor C. Richard Johnson is using computing algorithms to help art historians identify which of Vincent Van Gogh's paintings came from the same original rolls of canvas. (March 30, 2011)