Events on campus include a visit by Keith Olbermann, concerts by CU Chorus and Anat Cohen, lectures by Lowery Stokes Sims, Eliot A. Cohen and Scott Peters, and a new museum exhibit. (March 17, 2011)
The Freeman Foundation has awarded Cornell a new grant that will enhance language instruction in Chinese and Korean on campus and support the China and Asia-Pacific Studies major. (Oct. 21, 2008)
Kathleen Foley has received a 2006 Trustees' Merit Citation from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, and Misty Urban won a first prize for fiction in the 21st annual New Letters Awards for Writers contest.
L. Sanford Reis '29, whose gifts to the university included the Reis Tennis Center and the main stage of the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, died June 27 at age 101 in Sarasota, Fla. (July 16, 2009)
Renowned author, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou will deliver the 2008 Cornell Convocation address to graduating seniors Saturday, May 24, at noon in Schoellkopf Stadium. (April 1, 2008)
Cornell Library's vault contains a host of treasures, including two Nobel medals, Ezra Cornell's safe, and a voting machine from Florida that was used in the contested 2000 presidential election. (March 1, 2012)
Renowned composer and musician Fred Frith described his various techniques for composing music for films Feb. 29 as part of the Fred Frith Festival on campus. (March 1, 2012)
A Feb. 29 Cornell Law School panel, featuring professors Joe Margulies ‘82, John Blume and Valerie Hans, discussed the future of the death penalty in light of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's death Feb. 13.