Filmmaker and senior lecturer in physics Robert H. Lieberman risked imprisonment and deportation while making a documentary in Burma. Cornell Cinema shows 'They Call It Myanmar' May 3. (April 28, 2011)
Poet Joanie Mackowski described her efforts to challenge herself and write about non-humans in her poetry, speaking April 25 at this semester's final Literary Luncheon. (April 27, 2011)
NASA is calling the Cassini mission’s last hurrah the Grand Finale. After cruising seven years to Saturn and spending 13 years strolling its neighborhood, on Sept. 15 the spacecraft ends its mission by plunging into the ringed planet’s atmosphere, breaking into fiery shards.
Events this week include a new exhibition on Cornellians' impact on Tompkins County; a jazz concert with Joshua Redman; a film and panel discussion on sexual assault and a Korean Festival.
Fredrik Logevall, vice provost for international affairs and director of the Einaudi Center, and David Greenberg of Rutgers University, discussed “JFK, Vietnam, and What Might Have Been?” Oct. 15 in New York City.
A research group led by Poul Petersen, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, reports a chiral "spine" of hydration inside DNA, the first report of a chiral water superstructure inside a biomolecule.
Kenneth Evett, painter and professor emeritus of art at Cornell University, died May 28 in Ithaca. He was 91. A prolific painter, he exhibited in national group shows at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Art Institute of Chicago.
Jim Irish and his wife, Andrea Glanz, both Class of 1974, returned to campus April 24. They made a gift to the Africana library's Caribbean studies collection.
A group of Buddhist monks, visiting the U.S. to assist the Dalai Lama, will come to the Cornell campus with prayers for world peace on July 21. (July 15, 2011)