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Music

Cornell and NYS Baroque to perform Bach’s monumental St. Matthew Passion

On May 5 in Bailey Hall, the Cornell University Glee Club and Chorus, orchestral musicians from NYS Baroque, and six internationally-renowned vocal soloists, including tenor Rufus Müller, will perform the music of J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion.

Performing & Media Arts

Free screening of humorous and heartbreaking documentary

Performing & Media Arts

From selling candy to heroin: on April 25, the Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) will hold a free screening of “Tony,” a new documentary telling the story of one man’s life. PMA Professor Bruce Levitt produced the film, with filming and editing by Peter Carroll. A talkback with Levitt, Carroll, and Tony will follow the screening, which is free and open to the public. The event will be at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, 430 College Avenue in Ithaca.

Performing & Media Arts

Student-choreographed dance concert challenges limitations of containment

Performing & Media Arts

Cornell University senior Danielle LaGrua explores the limitations of traditional performance and the pressures of being a student in her dance concert "containment: defining boundaries, activating outbreak," which runs May 3–5 at Cornell’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.

Molecular Biology and Genetics

Bretscher, Lord elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Cornell Chronicle

Professor of cell biology Anthony P. Bretscher has been elected to membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, along with Catherine Lord, professor of psychology in pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City.

Two professors in lab coats looking at chemistry writing on a white board
Awards and Honors

Twelve assistant professors win NSF early-career awards

Cornell Chronicle

The awards support junior faculty members’ research projects and outreach efforts.

Performing and Media Arts

Students recognized for addressing challenges where people live

Cornell Chronicle

The 2018 Community Engagement Showcase, April 16 in Klarman Hall, celebrated undergraduate and graduate students who collaborated with local and international communities.

A.R. Ammons and colleagues
Poetry

Colleagues celebrate A.R. Ammons in Temple of Zeus

Cornell Chronicle

Renowned poet and legendary Cornell faculty member A.R. Ammons – “Archie” to all who knew him – was remembered by colleagues and friends at an informal reception April 9 in Klarman Hall.

English

Fellowship supports MFA creative writing student Yessica Martinez

Cornell Chronicle

Yessica Martinez has received a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans, a graduate school program for immigrants and children of immigrants, that will fund her pursuit of a Cornell MFA in creative writing.

Economics

Law/economics initiative takes on big questions at kickoff conference

Cornell Chronicle

For most of human history, nearly everyone lived in precarious conditions – their lives, in the words of the 17th-century philosopher Thomas Hobbes, “solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short.”

Physics

Insect Flight -- Still a Mystery

Cornell Research

The flight capabilities of insects are nature’s solution to locomotion in air, according to Z. Jane Wang, Physics, and there are general principles of locomotion and evolution we can learn from them.