Cornell President David Skorton, chemist Geoffrey Coates, physicist Sol Gruner and mathematician Laurent Saloff-Coste are among 212 newly elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. (April 21, 2011)
Four students are now enrolled in the inaugural class of Cornell’s new doctoral program in Africana Studies, with another three to five students expected to join next fall.
Students in the Minority Organization of Architecture, Art and Planning are engaged in field study and cultural immersion on a winter break trip to India.
The university has chosen Pritzer Prize winner Thom Mayne and Morphosis to design the first academic building for the tech campus on Roosevelt Island. Cornell is striving to create a net-zero energy structure.
Takuma Itoh, Christopher Stark and Eric Nathan, Ph.D. students in the field of composition, have been selected to receive American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers young composer awards. (Aug. 24, 2011)
The play 'Followthrough' by Benjamin Hennessy '13 on Oct. 21 is the first in a series of student-run performance events and projects at the Schwartz Center. (Oct. 17, 2011)
Art, Caribbean culture, history and spirituality will combine in Jamaican art historian Petrine Archer-Straw's winter session distance course, Rastafari, Race and Resistance. (Nov. 12, 2008)
President David Skorton explored themes of dance and celebrated artistic director Judith Jamison's career at the Joan Weill Center for Dance and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Manhattan June 8. (June 20, 2011)
Events this week include the annual Town-Gown Awards and Recognition Ceremony, a Science Cabaret opportunity to solve a cholera outbreak, a university budget forum and exhibitions ending soon. (Dec. 6, 2012)