'Hairspray' director John Waters will join academics, artists and activists at the 'Resoundingly Queer' conference, March 30-April 1 at the Schwartz Center. (March 28, 2012)
Cornell theatre arts alumni and current graduate students will present papers on the topic of celebrity in 'Causes Celebre,' a symposium March 27-28 at the Schwartz Center. (March 25, 2009)
Art department faculty members found a new audience for their work in June with exhibits in China, thanks to an evolving partnership between the department and Tsinghua University in Beijing. (July 11, 2007)
Dendrochronology research by professor Sturt Manning has established a secure timeline for the archaeological and historical chronology of Mesopotamia in the second millennium B.C.
Event highlights on campus from Nov. 18-Dec. 2 include a play based on Charles Mingus' autobiography, high-wire artist Philippe Petit and professor of history Richard Polenberg's last lecture. (Nov. 17, 2011)
George Scangos '70 will discuss how innovative biopharmaceutical companies are developing transformative therapies and working to ensure patients' access to them while meeting the demands of shareholders.
M.F.A. candidate Lindsey Glover has won Cornell's inaugural Margaret Bourke-White Photography Portfolio Prize. Her entry will be on display outside the president's office through May. (March 10, 2008)
The History of Art Majors Society has curated interactive art representing the human body for an annual exhibition at the Johnson Museum, 'Exquisite Corpus: Interacting with the Fragmented Body.' (May 6, 2008)
A new book by David Bateman, associate professor of government, offers the first cross-national account of the simultaneous expansion and restriction of voting rights in 19th-century France, United States and the United Kingdom.