Events this week include new films at Cornell Cinema; a display of Martin Luther King's work with the labor movement; an early 20th-century piano festival and an exhibit from a local biodiversity survey.
The polymer, called polypropylene carbonate, is made using a class of catalysts that was invented in the lab of Geoffrey Coates, and further developed by the Cornell spinoff company Novomer.
New York has the unique soil and climate conditions to establish itself as a significant presence in the market for sparkling wine, experts said at B.E.V. NY, Cornell’s annual outreach event for the wine industry.
Hand Buzz Spector a book, and there's a good chance he'll destroy it. Read a profile of the Cornell art professor and art department chair, who has meticulously torn the pages of hundreds of books to create cascading images within their bindings.
Six students and staff from the Cornell's Southeast Asia Program as well as the Cornell Gamelan Ensemble helped celebrate the Asian Elephant Extravaganza at the Syracuse zoo Aug. 21. (Aug. 24, 2010)
Professor David Feldshuh will develop a training model for teachers based on performance techniques, as a Menschel Distinguished Teaching Fellow working with the Center for Teaching Excellence. (March 24, 2011)
Digging deep into family history? Try Cornell University Library. Not only a trove of primary sources for scholarship, the numerous archives of Cornell University Library also can bring back vivid memories and illuminate gaps in personal stories.
Joel Perlman, BFA '65, was 14 when he decided to become a sculptor. He was a scrappy scholarship kid at Fieldston School in the Bronx then, hard hit by the recent, sudden death of his father from a heart attack at 47.
To help…
A $83,635 National Endowment for the Humanities will help the Cornell University Press make classic out-of-print books available electronically and free of charge to readers worldwide.
Events this week include J.P. Sniadecki's new film on trains and transformation in China, book talks on Project Puffin and renewing cities after natural disaster, and Cayuga's Waiters' Spring Fever.