Events on campus this week include actor Joshua Malina, a figure skating competition at Lynah Rink, Local Fair at Mann Library, the Ithaca Fantastic Film Festival and International Education Week.
First-Year Parents Weekend is an opportunity for parents to experience Cornell life with other new families, while meeting their student's friends, faculty, academic deans and administrators.
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 symposium celebrating the mathematical legacy of the late Bill Thurston, the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor of Mathematics and winner of the Fields Medal, will take place June 23-27.
Soumitra Dutta, the Anne and Elmer Lindseth Dean of Johnson at Cornell University, this week is joining other leading thinkers at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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 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)
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.
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.