This feature highlights the humanities at the university. The stories are edited by George Lowery of the Office of Humanities Communications. To suggest a story idea, e-mail gpl5@cornell.edu. Also, be sure to visit Cornell's Humanities Web site.


May 24, 2007
Music professor Steven Pond wins Woody Guthrie Book Award
Shelley Feldman to bring international perspective to Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies
Meet the humanists: Daniel R. Schwarz

April 12, 2007
Helena Viramontes re-creates 1960s Los Angeles in new novel
Cornell Chordials celebrates 10 years of a cappella

March 1, 2007
Novelist and electronica musician J. Robert Lennon mentors writers in the art of fiction
Events celebrate late playwright Wendy Wasserstein

Jan. 17, 2007
Department of Music receives its largest gift ever, $6.5 million
Cornell Symphony Orchestra presents concert in Berlin
'Beat Box Bard' will give Shakespeare a contemporary beat

Sept. 13, 2006
Society for the Humanities marks 40th anniversary with symposium on universities and globalization
Architect Rem Koolhaas and colleagues to unveil Milstein Hall design Sept. 19 on campus
Arthur Miller's 'All My Sons' opens Schwartz Center theater season

June 28, 2006
Challenge gift enriches Cornell experience for Native American students
Woman behind 'Lolita': Nabokov's wife, Vèra, was muse, editor and selfless partner

May 3, 2006
Skorton, Martin to participate in national humanities colloquium
Essay excerpts from 'Do the Humanities Have to Be Useful?'

March 22, 2006
Cornell receives almost $1.8 million renewal of Mellon grant for humanities and social sciences
University lobbyists urge support for the heart and soul of culture

Feb. 15, 2006
Near Eastern studies: Making the strange familiar

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