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English

The Complete Archie

Cornell Alumni Magazine

Like generations of Cornell writers, I sat in the light of speech with poet and longtime English professor Archie Ammons morning after morning over coffee in the Temple of Zeus—first in the grand cavern that the café occupied on the left side of the Goldwin Smith lobby, later in the more modern but much diminished setting on the right, to which it was shifted in 1997.

English

Conference to celebrate 50 years of Dan Schwarz's teaching

Cornell Chronicle

Three of the conference’s keynote speakers are former students of Schwarz who are now professors.

Biochemistry Research and Honors Thesis

This week, senior Solveig writes about her excitement over being able to produce a physical proof of her two years worth of biochemistry research – an honors thesis.By Solveig van der Vegt '18, Biological Sciences major, Mathematics minor

Performing & Media Arts

Activist and artist to speak on empowerment in theatre

Performing & Media Arts

Award-winning activist, artist, director, and scholar Rhodessa Jones brings her techniques of “Creative Survival” to Cornell’s Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts on March 20 and 22 for a public lecture and master class, respectively.

English

Levine keeps the 'Norton Anthology of World Literature' fresh

A&S Communications

The 2017 edition adds new sections of oral works and poetry and politics.

Music

Jazz Legend Wynton Marsalis in concert with Cornell ensembles March 28

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Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Researchers sew atomic lattices seamlessly together

Cornell Chronicle

Joining different kinds of materials can lead to all kinds of breakthroughs.

Career Development

Fortune editor visits March 16 for Munschauer lecture

A&S Communications

Leigh Gallagher '94, an English major, will talk about her work and her career path.

Data Science

Cornell helps unlock doors to careers in data science

Cornell Chronicle

A new course this semester called Data Science for All offers data skills that students will need regardless of their career.

Romance studies

Medieval and renaissance scholar speaks March 19

A&S Communications

A Medieval and Renaissance literature scholar from Bard College will visit campus March 19 to talk about her research related to truth and fiction in texts from the Middle Ages.

Campus Climate

University reaffirms its commitment to, support of undocumented students

Cornell Chronicle

Numerous resources are available on campus for undocumented students with and without DACA status.

History

Boycotts won't weaken the NRA's bottom line – but that's not the point

Globe and Mail

In this piece in The Globe and Mail, Lawrence Glickman, the Stephen and Evalyn Milman Professor in American Studies, argues that recent NRA boycotts are succeeding at an unprecedented level, utilizing a boycott for what they've always been been about: indignant consumers puncturing political influence.

In Memoriam

Cornell benefactor Imogene Powers Johnson dies at 87

Cornell Chronicle

Imogene “Gene” Powers Johnson ’52, a devoted alumna, benefactor and matriarch of a multigenerational philanthropic Cornellian family, died March 3 in Racine, Wisconsin. She was 87.

Biology

Undergrad researcher explores ways to combat antibiotic resistance to cholera

A&S Communications

Researchers have discovered a gene whose presence creates a larger “porin,” a hole in a bacteria’s outer membrane, allowing larger antibiotics to enter and attack the cell wall.

Music

Cornell Symphony Orchestra offers annual young person’s concert

A&S Communications

Young musicians from Ithaca High School Chamber Orchestra, the Cayuga Chamber Orchestra’s Youth Orchestra and the Cornell Synphony Orchestra will come together to perform a concert for the Ithaca community on Sunday, March 11.