In 2005, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, author of "The Heidi Chronicles," "The Sisters Rosensweig" and other plays, was appointed the President's Council of Cornell Women Andrew D. White Professor-at-Large. Lights on Broadway dimmed in tribute to her when she died in January 2006 at age 55.

The Cornell Department of Theatre, Film and Dance celebrated Wasserstein's place in the American theater with a series of events, Feb. 23-25, including a staged reading of "Third," Wasserstein's last play, a panel discussion and a conversation with Wasserstein's friend, playwright Christopher Durang. The Schwartz Center also staged Wasserstein's first play, "Uncommon Women and Others."