To better understand avant-garde theater, cinema and the new electronic and digital art forms, we need to peer into the past, says Cornell University Professor of English Timothy Murray. By re-examining the representations of race, gender, sexuality and power in Shakespeare and other early modern works, we can understand the fascination of contemporary artists and playwrights with early modern theater and art.
The speech Nelson Mandela gave when he was released from South Africa's Robben Island prison; articles in African newspapers about the AIDS epidemic; favorite stories of Nigerian schoolchildren: These are some of the primary source materials about Africa on a new Cornell outreach Website.
The Department of Near Eastern Studies will launch an Intensive Arabic Program in the fall, with a full semester of language study on the Cornell campus and a semester living and studying in Jordan. (Jan. 22, 2009)
Boris Batterman, Cornell's Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of Applied and Engineering Physics Emeritus, died Dec. 14 at his home in San Francisco. He was 80 years old. (Jan. 10, 2011)
Robert F. Engle, M.S. ’66, Ph.D. ‘69, who won the 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, spoke on campus Oct. 24 about economics models that can stave off another financial crisis.
Cornell researchers, using computational modeling, are providing new insight into how atoms in crystals rearrange as the material is bent and shaped. (Sept. 2, 2010)
James (Jim) D. Hazzard, director emeritus of alumni affairs at Cornell, died Aug. 11 at his home in Ithaca; he was 84. A memorial service is slated for Oct. 2, 1 p.m., in Sage Chapel. (Sept. 2, 2011)
Fifty Chinese high school students in the Cornell China College Preparatory Program spent the summer on campus engaged in academic work and cultural and language immersion. (Aug. 4, 2008)
Christine Natsios has been appointed director of alumni affairs at the School of Hotel Administration. Natsios, a 1985 graduate of the Hotel School, will develop and implement alumni activities and programs throughout the world for the school.
With Cornell's four new MOOCs for spring 2015, students from all over the world can survey global hospitality management, tour technology inside your smart phone, fix ecologically broken places and explore eating from an ethical perspective.