Cornell Junior Bryan J. Lowrance, a Presidential Research Scholar and College Scholar majoring in English and classics, has been named one of 18 Beinecke Scholarship winners nationwide for 2005.
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.
Black History Month puts focus on the role of black people in the development of world civilizations and memorializes figures who fought for equality, panelists said Feb. 16.
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)
Jonathan Culler, the Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, has been appointed a member of the board of directors of the New York State Council for the Humanities. (April 17, 2007)
A performance of 'Re:Design,' a dramatization of correspondence between Charles Darwin and Harvard botanist Asa Gray, kicked off Cornell's weeklong series of events celebrating Darwin Day 2008. (Feb. 12, 2008)
A new bird species in Peru was discovered by young Cornell graduates, who named it in honor of Cornell Lab of Ornithology Executive Director John W. Fitzpatrick. (Aug. 7, 2012)
A $1.7 million NIH grant will be used to better understand why teens are prone to taking risks. The study will use an MRI to compare brains of teens and adults when faced with risky decisions.