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.
George Washington slept here? Perhaps. Students in Cornell's Historic Preservation Seminar are scouring the hills and valleys of the Town of Ithaca in search of historic and architecturally significant homes and buildings.
Some 80 percent of older moms admit they have a favorite among their grown children, according to a new Cornell University/Louisiana State University pilot study, and about 80 percent of children said they always knew it. But when asked which kid was mom's favorite, most adult children get it wrong.
Binge drinking is the target of a new media campaign to be developed over the next three years by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, Cornell and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Cornell's proposed Lake Source Cooling project has received an important approval, one of the necessary steps before proceeding with the project. The latest approval, for right-of-way and easements from the city of Ithaca, came Wednesday, Nov. 19, at a meeting of the Ithaca Common Council.
With autumn bursting all around, October turned out dry in the Northeast, according to climatologists from the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell. So dry, in fact, that the area-weighted monthly precipitation total of 1.81 inches represented 54 percent of the long-term normal (3.33 inches).
If you go over the river or through the woods, or traverse Interstate 81, or venture the eastern railroad corridor, you may be curious to know your chances of a 'white' Thanksgiving, as provided by the Northeast Regional Climate Center at Cornell University. A chart gives the probability of one-inch or more of snow on the ground Thanksgiving morning.
H. David Lambert, who has been instrumental in developing Cornell information technologies for the past nine years, will leave the university on Dec. 31. He has been vice president for information technologies since 1995, and director of network services from 1989 to 1995.
Donald F. Smith, dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine at Cornell, has announced three key leadership appointments to focus on the college's missions of education, research and service: Katherine M. Edmondson, assistant dean for learning and instruction; Douglas D. McGregor, associate dean for research and graduate education; and Robert O. Gilbert, associate dean for clinical programs and professional service.
Cornell scientists will study the dynamics and composition of the ionosphere using research instruments aboard one of a series of rockets, which will be launched from Puerto Rico in February 1998, as part of a scientific campaign known as Coqui II.
Pledging support and participation from all levels of the campus in protecting the environment and building sustainable futures, Cornell officials and student leaders signed a new statement on the environment today (Nov. 14, 1997). President Hunter Rawlings emphasized Cornell's long tradition of commitment to the environment in his remarks at the signing, which was held at noon in the Art Gallery of Willard Straight Hall.
