The Truman Capote Trust has awarded the Cornell English department a $30,000 Truman Capote Lectureship in Creative Writing grant for a graduate student.
Events on campus this week include alumnus and lifestyle expert Katie Brown, an urban version of 'Romeo and Juliet' and a benefit concert for Cornell's Hospital for Animals. (Nov. 12, 2009)
Stephan Loewentheil, J.D. ’75, has donated a rare photograph of Abraham Lincoln to Cornell University Library in honor of retiring university librarian Anne Kenney.
Historian and Cornell lecturer Carol Kammen described Oct. 20 how Cornell's early architecture reflected the different visions Ezra Cornell and Andrew White had as Cornell founders. (Oct. 24, 2011)
"Wearable" headphones and ear pads, dresses designed with the idea that "decoration may be transmittable," much like microbial infection, and a shoe design based on sea urchin shells are just three of the nine wearable art pieces…
Events on campus this week include a lecture on plant wisdom, heavy metal fashion, a Russian poet, films by Orson Welles and a panel on Latinos at Cornell.
W. Stanley Taft, associate professor of art and associate dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, will serve as interim dean of the college starting in January 2008. (Oct. 18, 2007)
Events this week include concerts by Califone and Shonen Knife, a country music-filled comedy at the Schwartz Center, reflections from a Sudanese artist and a forum on indigenous environmental issues. (Oct. 15, 2009)