Blending urban music beatboxing and the words of William Shakespeare, the world premiere of 'The Beat Box Bard' will run Jan. 31-Feb. 11 at Cornell's Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. (Jan. 15, 2007)
This fall, the Roper Center, the world's largest public opinion archive, will honor the first political scientist to quantify the country's swings from conservatism to liberalism and back again.
At the 2011 Frederick C. Wood lecture, April 6, Bishop Gene Robinson talked about how a person who is lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgendered can also be a person of faith. (April 7, 2011)
The 28th annual Cornell Fashion Collective runway show, is set for Saturday, April 28, 7-9 p.m., at Barton Hall. Some 3,000 attendees are expected. (April 23, 2012)
Walter Isard, professor emeritus of city and regional planning and economics, has died at age 91. Isard was an influential scholar who founded the fields of regional science and peace science. (Nov. 11, 2010)
Renowned writer Margaret Atwood gave a public reading on campus March 29. She also met with students in two small discussion groups the next day to talk about writing and to answer questions. (April 1, 2011)
Kent Hubbell, Cornell's dean of students, moonlights as an architectural designer of such Fiberglas fabric structures as the one sheltering the Chene Park Performing Arts Complex.
Cornell astrophysicists and scientists played a vital role to validate the historic news of the first direct detection of gravitational waves – as predicted 100 years ago by Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity.
The Mind and Memory: Exploring Creativity in the Arts and Sciences course begins this month at Cornell and runs through April. This popular annual offering includes public lectures by distinguished members of the Cornell faculty and other creative people.
Susan Murphy, vice president for student and academic services, expressed the university's condolences on the deaths of Clayton DeFisher and Adam Frey during the university's winter break.