A pair of alumni donors have helped the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English bring famous and emerging writers to campus for public readings and interaction with students since 2007. (Dec. 6, 2012)
As the new house professor-dean of Becker House, associate professor of history Ed Baptist will emphasize listening to students and sparking their intellectual curiosity outside the classroom.
Eric Tan '14, a student in the College of Engineering, was the winner of the eighth annual Cornell Concerto competition, held Dec. 11 in Barnes Hall Auditorium.
City and regional planning professor Victoria Beard is leading a new international development planning workshop this winter and spring, focused on squatters in the city of Solo, Indonesia.
Associate professor Riché Richardson recently spent a week in Paris as a cultural envoy. She gave talks, and her art quilts depicting Barack Obama, Josephine Baker and Simone de Beauvoir were exhibited. (Jan. 22, 2009)
In his new book 'Arcadian America,' historian Aaron Sachs examines a lost American environmental tradition, in the cemeteries that served as the nation's first urban parks.
Government relations VP Stephen Philip Johnson says he looks forward to getting to know the new Cornellians in the House of Representatives. (Nov. 4, 2010)