In a new Foreign Language Across the Curriculum class with Michael Fontaine, associate professor of classics, students earn course credit while learning to converse in Latin.
Cornell has announced a historic gift in support of its proposal to establish an applied science and technology campus in New York City. It is the largest gift in the university's history. (Dec. 16, 2011)
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)
With the music department's new curriculum, students will now find a more flexible route through the program and an emphasis on improvisation and other techniques.
The Cornell Council for the Arts is accepting applications for its next grant cycle, to support new creative projects during fall 2013 and spring 2014. Online applications are due March 14.
Richard V. Burkhauser, the Sarah Gibson Blanding Professor of Policy Analysis at Cornell, has co-authored a new book, 'The Declining Work and Welfare of People with Disabilities.' (Aug. 22, 2011)
Thirty-seven students from Latin America have been working with research faculty on campus as part of CienciAmerica, an eight-week summer program at Cornell.
The growth of Cornell Tech over the next few years will be exciting to watch and in many ways similar to what we see on the Ithaca campus, but with a novel approach, a Reunion audience was told June 7.
J.C. Seamus Davis will receive the 2009 Heike Kamerlingh Onnes Prize for Superconductivity Experiments for his study of the behavior of electrons in high-temperature superconductors.
The award recognizes young scientists with 'highly innovative, impactful, interdisciplinary accomplishments in the life sciences, physical sciences and engineering.' (Nov. 17, 2009)