Holzer spoke about the months leading up to Lincoln's historic presidency July 9 on campus. This summer the Class of 2012 is reading 'Lincoln at Gettysburg' through the New Student Reading Project. (July 11, 2008)
Wendy Wolford, Cornell’s vice provost for international affairs and the Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development, discusses her background, interdisciplinary approach, the university’s support for students and faculty in international work, the Global Grand Challenge, the new Cornell China Center and more.
J. Ellen Gainor, professor of theater and associate dean of the Graduate School, co-authored and made significant play selections for the first-ever 'Norton Anthology of Drama.' (May 13, 2009)
President Pollack and more than 1,000 alumni gathered Nov. 18 at Washington, D.C.'s National Museum of African American History to celebrate Cornell’s founding principles of inclusion and diversity.
Thought the Department of German Studies was dedicated to the exclusive study of the language, literature and culture of Germany? Or that English literature was confined to poetry and prose of the British Isles?
Not anymore. As…
At 'S'mores with Skorton,' an orientation event for transfer students, Jan. 17, President David Skorton mused on karaoke and what it is like to be a transfer student, in a fireside chat in Willard Straight Hall. (Jan. 18, 2008)
Vicki Goldberg, the photography critic for The New York Times, will deliver the Georges Lurcy Lecture Saturday, Oct. 4, at 3 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall. Goldberg will speak on "Photography Storms the Gates of Art," a presentation on the rise of photography to the level of an art form, as evidenced by its inclusion in museum collections.
Two undergraduates have won Udall Scholarship. They are Shoshannah Lenski, a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Lena Samsonenko, a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.