Events on campus this week include an architecture roadshow; the Alloy Orchestra scoring three silent films; a roundtable on Ebola's impact on Africa; and international readings on World War I.
Eboo Patel of the Interfaith Youth Core, an institution building the global youth movement, will present Cornell's Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture in Sage Chapel, Feb. 21 at 7 p.m.
It's only fitting that ceremonies for the official dedication of the Sheila W. and Richard J. Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts include elements of theater, film and dance performed by Cornell University students.
'Turkey: Culture, Change and Development,' a weeklong program featuring numerous cultural events, photography exhibits, films, readings and leading-edge forums.
Former Cornell anti-Vietman War activists return to campus Nov. 10-11 as part of the College of Arts and Sciences’ celebration of the university’s sesquicentennial.
Harold Tanner '52 supports programming for students on West Campus, naming the house fellow program for Hunter Rawlings, who spearheaded the residential initiative. (Feb. 14, 2008)
Douglas Wilder, the former governor of Virginia and a national political figure, will give a lecture at Cornell at 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 2, in Uris Hall Auditorium. The lecture, titled "Social and Political Challenges in the '90s," is free and open to the public.
Girls whose mothers were visited at home by nurses during pregnancy and the children's infancy are less likely to enter the criminal justice system before age 19, a long-term study shows.
People who squirm when confronted with slime or get grossed out by gore are more likely to be politically conservative than their less-squeamish counterparts, according to two Cornell studies. (June 3, 2009)