In a campus talk, Professor Sabine Haenni described how gangster films of the 1930s critiqued capitalism and its modes of exclusion in the United States, and incorrectly portrayed America abroad. (Oct. 26, 2011)
Jazz pianist Jason Moran and bassist Dave Holland will give a rare performance as a duo Jan. 28 in Barnes Hall, as part of the Cornell Concert Series. (Jan. 19, 2012)
Professor of Romance Studies Philip E. Lewis has been appointed vice president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Liberal Arts Colleges Program, effective Feb. 1. (Jan. 29, 2007)
The 2011 Goethe Prize competition, open to all students, is seeking essay submissions in German or English on any topic connected with German literature or culture. (March 23, 2011)
Recent gifts of comic art from two alumni have not only brought some laughter into the rare book vault at Cornell University Library but also some primary sources for scholars studying art and culture.
The College of Human Ecology and the Kheel Center will celebrate 20th-century fashion trends alongside the history of organized labor and union garment labeling in an exhibition opening Aug. 31.
A symposium sponsored through the new Academic Integration Initiative aimed to link together collaborative research and discovery across Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell Tech and Cornell’s main campus in Ithaca.
A group led by physics professor Lena Kourkoutis has mapped the picometer-scale lattice displacements of individual manganite atoms, which give rise to metal-insulator transitions and other phenomena.