The Westfield Center's "Forte/Piano" festival Aug. 5-9 will celebrate pianos and piano music as the instrument has evolved from the early 18th century to today, with concerts, lectures and recitals.
A new book by Theodore Sider, Frederick J. Whiton Chair in philosophy, asserts that there is one best way to describe the world, using an objectively special language that matches reality's concepts. (Jan. 12, 2012)
Feminist author and editor Susie Bright delivered her Sexual State of the Union Jan. 23, in which she advocated that parents let their children be themselves.
This year's School of Criticism and Theory, June 19-July 28, is addressing trends in literature, political theory, history, philosophy, art and anthropology with some of the world's leading scholars. (July 6, 2011)
Poet Nicholas Friedman, MFA '12, a lecturer in the Department of English, is one of five recipients of a $15,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship, intended to encourage the writing and study of poetry. (Sept. 12, 2012)
Cornell physicists in the lab of Mukund Vengalattore have developed a novel method of manipulating mechanical resonators to be sensitive enough to work at the quantum scale.
In the second video of the Cornell Leadership Sessions series, President Martha E. Pollack and Provost Michael Kotlikoff discuss the recent decline in cases on campus and lowering of the alert level, among other topics.
The Eastern Broccoli Project began in 2010 with the goal of growing a $100 million broccoli industry in the Eastern U.S. in 10 years. With two remaining years of funding, Cornell researchers say they are on schedule to meet their goal.