Alfred H. Schatz, an emeritus professor of mathematics who taught at Cornell for nearly 50 years, died at home on Oct. 11 after a long bout with Parkinson’s disease. He was 90.
“Unearthing Unseeing: Archaeology, Heritage, and Forensics in the Shadow of State Violence” will highlight new approaches to cultural remains caught up in contemporary conflicts and past trauma.
Submissions are due Oct. 31 and should combine art and technology in any way: video games, fashion, sculpture, graphic design, virtual reality, AI collaborations, performance, music, etc.
Chao Yuen-Ren 1914, composer of the first Chinese keyboard music, was also a ground-breaking linguist who transformed the Chinese language through his scholarship on Chinese grammar and phonology.
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More than 75 people, including university leaders, donors and members of the College of Arts and Sciences Advisory Council, celebrated the start of the $110 million McGraw Hall renovation project Sept. 19 with a “groundbreaking” ceremony.
Cornell students and high school students with disabilities or communication challenges met for 12 weeks to explore birds and build communications skills.
Daveed Diggs, who won Tony and Grammy awards for his portrayal of the dual roles of Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette in “Hamilton,” will visit campus Sept. 25 for a talk as the 2024 Heermans-McCalmon Distinguished Guest Artist.
Kenneth Atsenhaienton Deer, founder and former editor of The Eastern Door newspaper, will be the featured speaker at the 2024 Daniel W. Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture, Sept. 10.
The Department of Economics will bring economist Heidi Williams to campus for a Sept. 5 talk, "Innovation and Productivity Policies: A Budgetary Perspective.”
The field of game studies is growing at Cornell, including an expanded set of classes, workshops and symposia and a growing library collection of games.
Arundhati Singh approached the task using game theory and logic, to “strategize how women can go forward in this economic game that we seem to be stuck with."
A new album of music — played on several innovative new instruments created and restored at Cornell, including a Moog synthesizer —will debut June 28 from the band EZRA, which includes a Cornell faculty member.
“This year’s Humanities Scholar Program conference was spectacular. The range of topics covered, the diversity of approaches, and the level of mastery demonstrated by the students were inspiring,” said interim director Lawrence Glickman.
Paul Jensen ’85 had a successful career in public relations, but when he left his job at a big agency four years ago, he was longing to get back to something he loved and missed: his music.
At Cornell’s Johnson Museum of Art, the work of renowned artist Guadalupe Maravilla is on display in the same space as that of Ingrid Hernandez-Franco, a Salvadoran woman whose asylum case was championed by a Cornell professor and her students.
Richlove Nkansah '26 is the co-founder, with Harmony Prado ’24, of CultureCare, a digital platform for BIPOC (Black, indigenous, and people of color) therapists to manage their practice and connect to clients.
Science on Screen® supports creative pairings of current, classic, cult, and documentary films with introductions by figures from the world of science, technology and medicine.
Cólm Tóibín, the Irene and Sidney B. Silverman Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University, will visit campus April 11 to deliver the Eamon McEneaney Memorial Reading,
Cornell faculty and alumni took part in a wide-ranging discussion focused on nationalism around the world during a March 26 New York City event featuring NPR media correspondent David Folkenflik ’91, the Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist in the College of Arts & Sciences.
On March 13, the Department of Near Eastern Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences will host “Academic Freedom and Middle East Scholars after Oct. 7,” one of Cornell’s Freedom of Expression theme year events.
On March 15 the College of Arts & Sciences takes over the Mann Library for this semester's Arts Unplugged, "Nabokov, Naturally," celebrating esteemed Cornell faculty member, Vladimir Nabokov as writer and "butterfly man."
