Elsie Myers Stainton, an editor and author who spent most of her adulthood in Ithaca, died Aug. 31 in Silver Spring, Md., of cancer. She was 96. (Sept. 10, 2007)
Thousands and thousands of documents: the Library of Congress has received 1,705 boxes of the Seth MacFarlane Collection of the Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan Archive for all of posterity to sift.
Richard Schechner, founder of the performance studies department at New York University, will conduct theater classes and performances on and off the Cornell campus during his visit as an A.D. White Professor-at-Large.
As The New York Times celebrates its 100th anniversary, displaying its famous pages at several Manhattan libraries and museums, it is worth remembering that if not for one man, those pages might never have included reviews of the Beatles.
Three symposia featuring distinguished speakers in the arts and sciences will take place concurrently Thursday, Oct. 16, at 10 a.m. on the Cornell University campus in honor of the inauguration of President Jeffrey S. Lehman. The public is invited to attend. o Richard Meier, one of the world's most influential architects, will speak on "The New Architecture of Optimism," in the Statler Hotel Auditorium. (October 07, 2003)
Six Cornell researchers will receive grants totaling more than
$3 million as part of the National Science Foundation Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace program.
Paul Britten Austin, a poet and relative of filmmaker Ingmar Bergman, will give two public lectures at Cornell on Monday, March 3, including one about his renowned brother-in-law. In a lecture titled "The Bergman Background," at 4:30 p.m. in the Film Forum of the Center for Theatre Arts.
The annual BOOM (Bits On Our Minds) exhibition filled the Duffield Hall Atrium with booths, posters and gadgets and drew hundreds of visitors. (March 12, 2007)
'Saturn: Images From the Cassini-Huygens Mission,' an exhibit of 50 dramatic photographs captured by NASA's Cassini orbiter and the European Space Agency's Huygens lander, is on display through March 2009. (May 2, 2008)