Professor's new book shows how Jacqueline Kahanoff's philosophy of 'Levantinism,' advocating a multicultural society in Israel is still relevant today.
Robert M. Palmer, professor emeritus of composition and founder of the Doctor of Musical Arts program in composition at Cornell, died July 3 at the age of 95. (July 8, 2010)
Events this week include the Cornell Town-Gown Awards celebration, films for children of all ages, Christmas Vespers in Sage Chapel and student shows and screenings at the Schwartz Center.
The center, in partnership with East China Normal University, will foster collaborative and innovative arts and humanities research among faculty at the two institutions. (Oct. 22, 2008)
A nano-sized guitar string vibrates and crackles in an unexpectedly organized and intricate way, according to researchers who devised a way to listen to a nanoscale guitar for the first time – and then played the Cornell alma mater on it.
Cornell Arabic literature professor Shawkat M. Toorawa has received a $50,000 post-fellowship award to continue his work on several literary projects. (Aug. 9, 2011)
Janet Reno ’60, who went from leading Cornell's Women's Student Government Association to becoming the United States' first female attorney general, died from complications of Parkinson's disease Nov. 7. She was 78.
Events on campus include art exhibitions at the Johnson Museum and Mann Library, a Soup and Hope lecture in Sage Chapel, outdoor photography workshops and a veterinary medicine seminar.
Two Cornell teams are finalists in the Reimagine the Canals competition, a $2.5 million New York state contest that aspires to return the 200-year-old Erie Canal into an economic catalyst and tourism hotspot.