http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov09/ADWhiteProf.html William Forsythe, the newest A.D. White Professor-at-Large, is best known for using technology to explore the architecture of his dynamic, 21-century form of ballet. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:12:01 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov09/KatieBrown.html During a visit to campus Nov. 19, Katie Brown '85 drew on her experiences becoming an entrepreneur to inspire students to consider nontraditional career paths. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 17:56:11 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov09/WebsterHaydn.html Cornell's Department of Music is holding a four-concert Haydn Festival marking the 200th anniversary of the composer's death, with a diversity of works and a Nov. 21 lecture by James Webster. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:08:43 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov09/NYCRussian.html On the seventh annual trip to Brighton Beach, 33 Cornellians spent the day immersing themselves in Russian culture, including a performance by the acclaimed Russian National Folk Dance Ensemble. Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:01:50 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov09/HaitiConference.html At a French studies workshop, 'History and the Experience of Haiti,' Nov. 14, speakers addressed how Haiti's history relates to universal history - the relationships of histories throughout the world. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:50:27 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov09/NewHouseDeans.html Professors Andre Dhondt and Scott MacDonald will take up new posts as house professor-deans on West campus, starting in fall 2010. Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:10:01 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov09/NabokovLecture.html Cornell will celebrate the publication of Vladimir Nabokov's final work, 'The Original of Laura,' with early sales of the book and a lecture by Nabokov biographer Brian Boyd. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 16:29:32 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov09/WrathEssays.html The 10 students selected as winners of the 2009 New Student Reading Project essay contest will each receive $200 worth of books and have their essays published on the Reading Project Web site. Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:57:32 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov09/LibeskindCover.html In a Nov. 4 talk, Daniel Libeskind described how his experiences growing up in post-war Poland, his immigration to America as a teenager and his identity as a Jew have shaped his architectural vision. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:56:03 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov09/WSHistory.html Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies, formerly Women's Studies, has expanded over four decades to encompass the breadth of academic discourse in such areas as gender and queer studies. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:13:40 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov09/CornellCinema.html Cornell Cinema's eclectic year-round repertory and specialty programming offer film buffs access to a wide range of films, and co-sponsorships with a variety of academic programs. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:26:55 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov09/CinemaFunding.html The undergraduate Student Assembly has upheld a decision to cut Cornell Cinema's funding from the Student Activity Fee by 22 percent. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:26:15 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov09/WSEvent.html The Oct. 30 kickoff featured panelists who described how Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies has helped shape their academic careers. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:24:19 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Nov09/CULChinaCollab.html Cornell University Library and Tsinghua University Library in China cemented a formal collaboration during an Oct. 29 ceremony on Cornell's campus. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:49:13 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/ClicksLinguistics.html Linguistics scholar Amanda Miller is doing research with high-speed ultrasound technology to help her and fellow researchers successfully record and classify clicks in an endangered African language. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:28:01 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/LincolnLecture.html Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James McPherson gave a lecture Oct. 20 to launch Cornell Library's celebration of the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth and a new exhibition on Lincoln. Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:14:08 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/StefanonBookAward.html Assistant professor of English Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon has been named a finalist for a 2009 National Book Award in poetry for her recent collection 'Open Interval.' Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:12:30 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/LincolnExhibition.html The Cornell Library is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth with a new exhibition on the Lincoln presidency, opening Oct. 20 with rare documents and Civil War memorabilia. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:11:54 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/EhrenbergMellon.html 'Educating Scholars: Doctoral Education in the Humanities' is a new book with first author Ron Ehrenberg that looks at attrition and completion rates in humanities Ph.D. programs. Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:43:33 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/Lib.partnership.gg.html Through a Andrew W. Mellon Foundation award of $385,000, Cornell University Library and Columbia University Library have entered into an unprecedented collaboration. Wed, 14 Oct 2009 17:56:24 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/Hiphopsalon.jm.html Hip-hop collector, historian and author Johan Kugelberg praised the leadership of Cornell librarians during a Library Salon, held Oct. 6 at the Union League Club in New York City. Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:20:00 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/ToniMorrison.html Author Toni Morrison, M.A. '55, returned to campus Oct. 1-2 to read from and talk about her work with students and faculty and at two public events. Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:59:53 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/MorrisonBSUlunch.html Eight members of Black Students United heard author Toni Morrison's views on writing at a private luncheon Oct. 2 at Taverna Banfi. The organization played a role in bringing Morrison to campus. Mon, 05 Oct 2009 17:56:37 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept09/ManningLabNSF.html A team of interdisciplinary researchers from Cornell and Ithaca College will study architecture and social interaction in an early civilization on Cyprus in a federally funded four-year project. Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:16:47 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept09/AfricanaHistory.html The founding of Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center followed years of civil rights advances and 1960s campus activism, as black students demanded recognition of their history and culture. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:02:37 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept09/ASRC40th.html Cornell's Africana Studies and Research Center marks its 40th anniversary with exhibitions, symposia and other events celebrating its history and considering the future of the field it pioneered. Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:00:55 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept09/modelUN.html A Sept. 16 model United Nations debate, argued in nine languages about global sustainability issues, was the first event of the year for Cornell's Language House on West Campus. Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:16:17 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept09/wearableArt.sh.html An exhibit in Mann Library's second-floor gallery through Oct. 17 features wearable art with the theme 'Red!' Pieces include fabric origami, electroluminescence and 'sound' waves. Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:24:30 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept09/SmithPerspectives.html The Rev. Robert Smith, the Robert R. Colbert Sr. '48 Catholic Chaplain at Cornell, offers a perspectives piece on the the upcoming Colbert Symposia series. Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:21:03 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept09/ADWhiteprofs.html Students will have the opportunity to learn from two new A.D. White Professors-at-Large: cultural critic Rebecca Solnit and conservationist Jeffrey McNeely, who were appointed to six-year terms. Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:34:27 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept09/writerSeries.html 'I believe in God, only I spell it nature,' said author Diane Ackerman, Ph.D. '97. She spoke Sept. 2, kicking off Sage Chapel's new fall series, Sage Wednesdays, held Wednesdays at 12:15 p.m. Tue, 08 Sep 2009 17:30:36 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Sept09/KellsAngels.html Some early manuscripts, including the Book of Kells, contain artwork that is microscopically precise, despite being created centuries before microscopes. John Cisne explains how it could have been done. Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:05:05 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug09/designLanguage.html The interior design field now has a language of its own, thanks to Professor Jan Jennings, who has spearheaded an online database for contemporary design that includes a new vocabulary. Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:06:50 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug09/libeWrath.gg.html Students met in small groups Aug. 24 to discuss the themes of the New Student Reading Project book. While some appreciated reading a classic, others said they would have preferred a contemporary book. Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:42:24 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug09/GrapesPanel.da.html Four Cornell faculty members analyzed John Steinbeck's 'The Grapes of Wrath' from economic, environmental, literary and labor history perspectives for new students Aug. 23 in Barton Hall. Mon, 24 Aug 2009 18:52:53 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug09/WyethColor.html The colors of a 1919 painting by N.C. Wyeth have finally come to light, thanks to cutting-edge technologies developed at the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source. Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:38:16 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug09/ReadingProject.html Some 3,500 incoming freshmen and new transfer students will discuss John Steinbeck's 1939 novel in depth during campuswide discussions Aug. 23-24, part of the ninth annual New Student Reading Project. Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:24:39 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug09/SolarHouse.html After several months of construction, engineering and design work, Cornell's 2009 Solar Decathlon house will debut to the public Aug. 27 at the Great New York State Fair. Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:56:43 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Aug09/OatesWriting.html Author Joyce Carol Oates lectured Aug. 5 in Statler Hall on the lives and creative motivations of famous writers including Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Ernest Hemingway and Emily Dickinson. Fri, 07 Aug 2009 12:31:54 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July09/TTDJuly31.html Events at Cornell this week include a lecture by writer Joyce Carol Oates, Latin music on the Arts Quad, stargazing, films and an engineering symposium. Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:49:23 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July09/TTDJuly24.html Events this week include concerts of electronic and Irish music, bird walks in Sapsucker Woods, and an award-winning film from Central America. Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:41:09 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July09/MellonGrant.html Cornell Library has received a $375,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation to continue to help historically black colleges and universities create and manage digital collections. Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:19:55 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/July09/SCTsummer09.html The School of Criticism and Theory immerses participants in a broad range of topics in the humanities and social sciences, from poetry, art and literary history to political science and cultural movements. Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:22:59 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/June09/CCAawards.html The Cornell Council for the Arts announced painter James Siena '79 will receive the 2009-10 Eissner Artist of the Year Award, and Dorian Bandy '10 the annual Cornell Undergraduate Artist Award. Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:14:02 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/June09/ByfieldASA.html Judith Byfield, Cornell associate professor of history and Africana studies, will serve in 2009-10 as vice president of the African Studies Association, an international group of scholars. Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:27:55 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/June09/BrownViceProvost.html On June 11, Provost Kent Fuchs announced that English Professor Laura Brown will succeed Michele Moody-Adams, July 1, as vice provost for undergraduate education. Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:03:40 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/June09/KrasikovRohrprize.html Sana Krasikov '01 has won the 2009 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, worth $100,000, for her debut short story collection, 'One More Year.' Fri, 05 Jun 2009 15:23:03 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May09/KammenBook.da.html In 'Part and Apart: The Black Experience at Cornell, 1865-1945,' historian Carol Kammen pieces together a picture of African-American student life in the university's first 80 years. Thu, 28 May 2009 20:02:59 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May09/Spartacus.da.html The history professor's new book on one of the most famous conflicts in ancient history sheds light for the first time on the slave rebellion, the rebels' tactics and why they were ultimately defeated. Wed, 20 May 2009 14:28:15 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May09/Islandia.gg.html Islandica, first published in 1908, is available online to the scholarly community in a searchable, open-access format and in print. The series is an extension of the library's Fiske Icelandic Collection. Mon, 18 May 2009 18:19:08 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May09/RichterAppt.da.html Acclaimed educator, designer and author Dagmar Richter has been appointed to chair the Department of Architecture, effective July 1. She comes to Cornell from UCLA. Wed, 13 May 2009 18:19:30 EST http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May09/NortonDrama.da.html J. Ellen Gainor, professor of theater and associate dean of the Graduate School, co-authored and made significant play selections for the first-ever 'Norton Anthology of Drama.' Wed, 13 May 2009 18:17:24 EST