Top executives from Pixar, the animation studio that created "Finding Nemo" and "Monsters, Inc.," and other animation experts who, collectively, have won six Oscars, will be on the Cornell University campus, April 19-22, to meet with students interested in the digital arts. They will give four free public talks, one each day, as well as take part in small-group sessions with students in Professor Donald Greenberg's classes on art, animation and technology. The visit and talks are part of Digital Arts Graphics Week at Cornell and the prestigious Preston H. Thomas Memorial Lecture Series at the College of Architecture, Art and Planning's Department of Architecture. Co-sponsors at Cornell are the Program of Computer Graphics, the Faculty of Computing and Information Science and the Department of Architecture. (April 16, 2004)
"Cognitive Computing and Beyond: Cornell Meets Watson," held Feb. 8 in Manhattan highlighted the latest research in Computing and Information Sciences and the College of Engineering.
The Cornell University Chorus and Glee Club will travel to cities in mainland China to perform for a wide range of audiences, building on the Cornell-China relationship founded more than a century ago. (Feb. 20, 2008)
Cornell leaders are developing tech campus programs under interdisciplinary domains, or hubs, rather than using the traditional university organization of colleges, schools and departments.
If you're expecting to hear now from aliens from across the universe, it might be a while. Cornell astronomers say extraterrestrials likely won’t phone home – or Earth – for 1,500 years.
At its monthly meeting April 13, the Faculty Senate was given a progress report by Provost Kent Fuchs on a range of campus issues, from reaccreditation to strategic plan initiatives.
Cornell Glee Club will preview its upcoming, competitive performance in Wales at Grace Church in Manhattan, Saturday, June 30 at 8 p.m. (June 21, 2012)
"Brothers in Arms," a new book by Cornell's Andrew Mertha, documents Maoist China’s secretive relationship with the ruthless Pol Pot regime, 1977-1979.