Assistant professor of English Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon has been named a finalist for a 2009 Los Angeles Times Book Prize, for her National Book Award-nominated poetry collection 'Open Interval.' (Feb. 26, 2010)
Discussions about the organizational structures of Cornell’s social sciences will continue throughout the summer and likely through the fall, administrators say.
The Cornell International Summit: Hospitality, Real Estate and the Built Environment, in Shanghai April 20, attracted 275 Cornellians and friends to discuss the state of China's hospitality and commercial real estate markets.
Students in fields ranging from computer science and engineering to business, agriculture and animal science convened at the second Digital Agriculture Hackathon, Feb. 28-March 1, with a shared purpose: to combine their disparate skills to brainstorm ways to make the world a better place.
Students in Jonathan Culler's Major Poets class returned from spring break March 28 to hear M.H. 'Mike' Abrams, the Class of 1916 Professor of English Emeritus, on 'The Fourth Dimension of a Poem.' (March 30, 2011)
In a Nov. 4 talk, Daniel Libeskind described how his experiences growing up in post-war Poland, his immigration to America as a teenager and his identity as a Jew have shaped his architectural vision. (Nov. 6, 2009)
Three English M.F.A. alumni have earned praise for their first novels. Two of the authors, Tea Obreht and Alexi Zentner, both M.F.A. '09, will give a joint reading April 4 at the Cornell Store. (March 29, 2011)
Cornell’s Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies will administer at $370,000, two-year grant from the MacArthur Foundation to further its studies.