Steven Stucky, the Given Foundation Professor of Music at Cornell and a pre-eminent American composer, has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
Cornell faculty members Sam Beck, Nelson Hairston, Alicia Orta-Ramirez and Thomas Ruttledge have been chosen for the 2013 Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Awards.
Union Days 2015 - themed "Labor on the Line: Breaking Boundaries, Building Movements" and held April 7-8 - featured a talk by Tefere Gebre, executive vice president of the AFL-CIO.
Social psychologist Tom Gilovich co-authored a study analyzing "sudden-death aversion" – the tendency to avoid "fast" strategies that offer both greater chance of success and the possibility of immediate defeat.
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Patrick Dougherty's 42-foot-tall "Roundabout" at the Tallaght Community Art Center, Dublin, Ireland, 1997.
One doesn't expect to happen upon a contemporary art installation made entirely of tree saplings in…
Cornell's 108th annual Dragon Day on March 13 featured the usual parade through campus and ritual burning, but this year the dragon survived thanks to state environmental regulations. (March 13, 2009)
The first CU Downtown community event, Sept. 3 from noon to 4 p.m. on the Ithaca Commons, will welcome Cornell’s incoming class with student group performances and encourage students to explore Ithaca.
G. Peter Lepage, professor of physics, has been reappointed to a five-year term as the Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, beginning July 1, 2009. (May 28, 2008)
The transformative global, cultural and societal impacts of the Tata Nano automobile will be discussed March 10-11 at a symposium, 'Unpacking the Nano: The Price of the World's Most Affordable Car.' (March 3, 2011)