Aaron Wexler '10 wins Cornell Concerto Competition
Violinist Aaron Wexler won the Dec. 13 competition for his performance of Pablo de Sarasate's 'Zigeunerweisen.' He will perform the piece March 7 with the Cornell Symphony Orchestra. (Dec. 22, 2009)

Evangelista says parallels to A.D. White are 'eerie'
Cornell professor Matthew Evangelista, recently appointed the President White Professor of History and Political Science, says his life parallels that of Andrew Dickson White in unusual ways. (Dec. 21, 2009)

Einaudi honors four faculty members with seed grants
Four grants awarded from the Summer 2009 Seed Grant Competition are intended to promote research on foreign policy and international development as well as international studies in general. (Dec. 16, 2009)

N.Y. Library hosts Cornell at Indonesia programs
Cornell students and faculty participated in a series of programs celebrating Indonesian culture from Dec. 7-12 at the New York Public Library. (Dec. 15, 2009)

Students design for 'woman down on her luck'
Students from seven apparel design classes strutted their end-of-semester projects Dec. 8 in a fashion show sponsored by the Department of Fiber Science & Apparel Design. (Dec. 11, 2009)

Cornellians in entertainment offer tips for alumni
Two Cornell award-winning Cornellians working in entertainment offered alumni tips on what it takes to succeed in the entertainment Industry, Dec. 8, in New York City. (Dec. 11, 2009)

Six students share top design contest prize
Six graduate students received the top prize for their entry in a national competition for sustainable urban design ideas for Philadelphia. (Dec. 10, 2009)

Student Assembly lessens cut to cinema funding
The Student Assembly on Dec. 4 cut Cornell Cinema's student activity fee funding by $1 per student per year, overturning a previous decision to cut cinema funding by $2.40. (Dec. 9, 2009)

Videos of prominent African-Americans bound for library
Interviews with illustrious African-Americans who are members of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, founded at Cornell in 1906, have been donated to Cornell University Library. (Dec. 7, 2009)

Roberto Sierra receives Grammy nod
Department of Music chair Roberto Sierra has been nominated for a Grammy Award in Best Contemporary Classical Composition for 'Missa Latina Pro Pace.' (Dec. 4, 2009)

Dorian Bandy '10 wins 2010 Marshall Scholarship
Dorian Bandy '10 has won a 2010 Marshall Scholarship and will study Baroque violin at the Royal Academy of Music in London. The scholarship supports two years of study at a British university. (Dec. 2, 2009)

Visiting professor Kakabadze wins top literary honor
Cornell writer-in-residence and visiting professor in the Department of Government Irakli Kakabadze was awarded the Oxfam Novib/PEN Award 2009 in The Hague, Nov. 18. (Nov. 24, 2009)

Visiting professor mixes technology and dance
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. (Nov. 23, 2009)

TV host Katie Brown '85 credits Cornell for her success
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. (Nov. 23, 2009)

Concerts, Webster lecture celebrate Haydn anniversary
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. (Nov. 19, 2009)

Trip to NYC offers window into Russian culture
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. (Nov. 19, 2009)

Panelists: The history of Haiti is relevant to the world
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. (Nov. 18, 2009)

Two new house deans named on West Campus
Professors Andre Dhondt and Scott MacDonald will take up new posts as house professor-deans on West campus, starting in fall 2010. (Nov. 18, 2009)

Nabokov's final novel released, scholar to lecture
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. (Nov. 11, 2009)

Student 'Grapes of Wrath' essay winners announced
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. (Nov. 9, 2009)

Architect of new World Trade Center discusses design
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. (Nov. 6, 2009)

Cornell looks back on 40 years of women's studies
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. (Nov. 4, 2009)

Film programming dovetails with academic mission
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. (Nov. 3, 2009)

SA recommends cutting Cornell Cinema funding
The undergraduate Student Assembly has upheld a decision to cut Cornell Cinema's funding from the Student Activity Fee by 22 percent. (Nov. 3, 2009)

Panelists celebrate 40 years of women's studies
The Oct. 30 kickoff featured panelists who described how Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies has helped shape their academic careers. (Nov. 3, 2009)

Collaboration strengthens scholarship across continents
Cornell University Library and Tsinghua University Library in China cemented a formal collaboration during an Oct. 29 ceremony on Cornell's campus. (Nov. 3, 2009)

Scholar helps classify clicks in African languages
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. (Oct. 21, 2009)

Expert: Lincoln stretched Constitution to save U.S.
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. (Oct. 21, 2009)

Van Clief-Stefanon a finalist for National Book Award
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.' (Oct. 19, 2009)

Library exhibition on Lincoln's presidency opens Oct. 20
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. (Oct. 15, 2009)

Book examines Ph.D. humanities programs
'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. (Oct. 15, 2009)

Cornell Library forms partnership with Columbia
Through a Andrew W. Mellon Foundation award of $385,000, Cornell University Library and Columbia University Library have entered into an unprecedented collaboration. (Oct. 14, 2009)

Hip-hop historian takes center stage at NYC event
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. (Oct. 8, 2009)

Toni Morrison on writing, knowledge and sin
�uthor 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. (Oct. 5, 2009)

Students learn about writing at lunch with Toni Morrison
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. (Oct. 5, 2009)

Team to study cities, social transformation on Cyprus
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. (Sept. 29, 2009)

Africana's foundation pioneered, influenced field
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. (Sept. 24, 2009)

Africana center looks back, and ahead
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. (Sept. 24, 2009)

Model U.N. debate helps students 'live' other languages
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. (Sept. 21, 2009)

Wearable-art student designers think red for exhibit
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. (Sept. 16, 2009)

Conversation 'is a vital aspect of university culture'
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. (Sept. 11, 2009)

Cornell names new A.D. White Professors-at-Large
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. (Sept. 8, 2009)

Sage Wednesdays focuses on writers, spirituality
'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. (Sept. 8, 2009)

Researcher uncovers secrets of Kells 'angels'
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. (Sept. 1, 2009)

Interior design now has a language all its own
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. (Aug. 26, 2009)

Students disagree over reading 'The Grapes of Wrath'
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. (Aug. 25, 2009)

Faculty panel, students discuss 'The Grapes of Wrath'
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. (Aug. 24, 2009)

Scientists use synchrotron to reveal lost painting
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. (Aug. 20, 2009)

New students will explore 'Grapes of Wrath'
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. (Aug. 18, 2009)

Solar house ready to leave lab for state fair test
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. (Aug. 17, 2009)

Joyce Carol Oates on writing and creative impulse
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. (Aug. 7, 2009)

Summer students present 'Othello' in five languages
Cornell Summer College students presented a scene from 'Othello' in Arabic, Urdu, Spanish, Japanese and English, July 29, to show Shakespeare's cross-cultural accessibility. (Aug. 6, 2009)

Architecture seminar explores urban 'Common Ground'
A design research seminar for Master of Architecture students examines city surfaces and environments, interpreted to help depict everyday scenarios in urban life. (Aug. 6, 2009)

Things to do, July 31-Aug. 7
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. (July 31, 2009)

Things to Do, July 24-30
Events this week include concerts of electronic and Irish music, bird walks in Sapsucker Woods, and an award-winning film from Central America. (July 24, 2009)

Grant to help build black schools' digital collections
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. (July 23, 2009)

'Theory boot camp' offers debate, diversity, bonding
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. (July 14, 2009)

Cornell Council for the Arts names award winners
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. (June 16, 2009)

Judith Byfield elected by African Studies Association
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. (June 15, 2009)

Vice provost for undergraduate education announced
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. (June 12, 2009)

Sana Krasikov '01 wins $100,000 literary prize
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.' (June 5, 2009)

Kammen book documents early black student life
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. (May 28, 2009)

Milstein Hall approval met with relief by AAP community
Dean Kent Kleinman announced the building's approval to the College of Architecture, Art and Planning's Class of 2009 at the college's ceremony on the Arts Quad following Commencement May 24. (May 24, 2009)

Skorton issues statement on Milstein Hall approval
President David Skorton issued a statement May 24 following board of trustees actions that included moving forward with construction of Paul Milstein Hall and the Johnson Museum's extension. (May 24, 2009)

Barry Strauss essays slave revolt in 'Spartacus War'
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. (May 20, 2009)

Library's Nordic scholarly series Islandica goes online
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. (May 18, 2009)

Dagmar Richter appointed architecture chair
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. (May 13, 2009)

J. Ellen Gainor collaborates on new Norton anthology
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.' (May 13, 2009)

Students take on archival research in hip-hop course
Librarians helped teach the new course Researching Hip-Hop, where students worked with primary sources and conducted original research. They showcased their new knowledge at a hip-hop fair April 29. (May 6, 2009)

Film studies grows across disciplines on campus
The Department of Theatre, Film and Dance is a focal point for a growing network of film and media studies scholars across campus, with two recent conferences and nine faculty members added to the graduate field. (May 6, 2009)

Competition inspires art from inside the brain
William Chen '09, a fine arts major in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, won the Department of Psychology's universitywide art competition by basing a work on his own thought process. (May 1, 2009)

A look at McGraw Hall's anthropology collections
Mummies, a shell necklace from a Hawaiian chief, masks from male initiation rituals in Zambia - it's all at McGraw Hall Museum, home of the anthropology department's teaching collection. (April 30, 2009)

Michael Ashkin receives Guggenheim fellowship
Assistant professor of art Michael Ashkin has received a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation supporting his upcoming solo sculpture exhibition in Vienna, Austria. (April 30, 2009)

Team in China offers innovative urban eco-design
A Cornell team traveled to China to participate in an eco-urban design workshop, where they developed an innovative urban model for China to consider as it prepares to build new cities. (April 23, 2009)

AAP students blog on their impressions of Rome
Architecture, art and planning students in the Cornell in Rome Program are documenting their impressions through a series of blogs. (April 23, 2009)

Bill Steele's 'Garbage!' an Earth anthem 40 years later
The song 'Garbage!' by Bill Steele '54 remains one of the environmental movement's anthems, popularized by Pete Seeger and still as timely as when Steele wrote it in San Francisco in 1969. (April 22, 2009)

Contest celebrates student book collections
Winners in Cornell's seventh annual Book Collection Contest include the owners of a book collection about interpretations of the Hebrew Bible and of a collection of Mark Strand publications. (April 21, 2009)

Release of student art publication is a circus
Spectacle and showmanship filled Willard Straight Hall's Memorial Room April 13, as 'Awkward Circus' presented a variety of acts reflecting student life, from jugglers to a burlesque routine. (April 16, 2009)

An ambitious 'Mass' -- Bernstein's opus at Schwartz
The Cornell production of Leonard Bernstein's rarely seen 'Mass' will have more than 125 performers on stage at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts, April 21-26. (April 15, 2009)

Conference on national insecurity and militarization
Scholars will explore military conflict and security in a two-day conference, 'Accumulating Insecurity, Securing Accumulation: Militarizing Everyday Life,' April 17-18 at the ILR Conference Center. (April 15, 2009)

Human rights advocate finds freedom to write
Ushari Khalil is on campus this year to lecture and write about his advocacy on behalf of children and displaced populations in Sudan -- work that has put him at risk there. (April 14, 2009)

Students win fellowships for study in Germany
Five Cornell students will study in Germany during the 2009-10 academic year after winning fellowships from the German Academic Exchange Service and the Cornell/Heidelberg Exchange. (April 7, 2009)

A.D. White's trip to Egypt resulted in boon for library
A collection of photographs, books and other materials from Cornell President A.D. White's restorative journey to Egypt in 1889 offer a unique glimpse of the era to users of Cornell Library. (April 3, 2009)

Jon Wong '08 to receive undergraduate artist award
Jonathan Wong will present a collaborative performance piece, 'The Same Dance 4 Times,' April 8 at 5 p.m. in the Weill Hall atrium. He will receive the 2008-09 Undergraduate Artist Award after the performance. (April 2, 2009)

Dubreuil receives Mellon New Directions Fellowship
Cornell professor Laurent Dubreuil will investigate non-standard logic and the cognitive study of language with the help of a $274,000 Mellon New Directions Fellowship. (April 2, 2009)

Brad Herzog '90 writes travel odyssey
Brad Herzog '90 considers the meaning of a heroic life in his new book, 'Greek to Me: A Would-be Hero's American Odyssey.' (April 2, 2009)

Business and apparel students design clothing line
A team of Cornell students has designed a line of menswear clothing from fabric donated by Pendleton Woolen Mills. They are hoping Pendleton will integrate the 12 garment styles into its designs. (April 1, 2009)

Omit needless words: 'The Elements of Style' turns 50
'The Elements of Style' marks its 50th anniversary since E.B. White revised and expanded the original book by his former Cornell professor, William Strunk Jr. (March 26, 2009)

Musical groups join in cross-cultural learning
Two campus musical ensembles explored their different cultural and religious traditions together in collaborative performances supported by Cornell's Breaking Bread Initiative. (March 25, 2009)

American Indian Program expands opportunities
Cornell's American Indian Program is offering its students a chance to participate in an upcoming United Nations forum on indigenous issues. The program also has strengthened support for students and scholars. (March 25, 2009)

Theatre studies alumni, students to ponder fame
Cornell theatre arts alumni and current graduate students will present papers on the topic of celebrity in 'Causes Celebre,' a symposium March 27-28 at the Schwartz Center. (March 25, 2009)

Hassan to talk on 'Islamic' art, war on terror
Salah Hassan will deliver the Society for the Humanities' Annual Invitational Lecture March 25 at 4:30 p.m. in Goldwin Smith Hall. (March 24, 2009)

Dragon Day ends in flames, but dragon remains
Cornell's 108th annual Dragon Day on March 13 featured the usual parade through campus and ritual burning, but this year the dragon survived thanks to state environmental regulations. (March 13, 2009)

Charles Darwin exhibits show the mind of a naturalist
The collaborative exhibition 'Charles Darwin: After the Origin' is on view at Kroch Library and Ithaca's Museum of the Earth. (March 13, 2009)

Sherman Alexie delivers Olin Lecture
Native American writer Sherman Alexie discussed his experiences growing up on a reservation with humor and insight in his Olin Lecture, March 6 in Cornell's Statler Auditorium. (March 11, 2009)

TransRhetorics airs new approaches in growing field
Scholars came to campus March 6-8 for TransRhetorics, a conference celebrating diverse interdisciplinary work in transgender studies and new rhetorical approaches in representations of transgender lives. (March 11, 2009)

Cornell scholars discuss Cornell writers
English professors discussed the work and influence of poet A.R. Ammons and alumni Thomas Pynchon, Loida Maritza Perez and Manuel Munoz in a scholarly panel on Cornell writers March 4. (March 10, 2009)

Japanese ritual puppetry comes to Cornell
Puppets used in the Awaji Puppet Theater performances Feb. 24-25 on campus are used in Japan in religious rites and other rituals, according to Professor Jane Marie Law. (March 2, 2009)

Resurrecting rare books via print-on-demand
In a partnership between Cornell University Library and Amazon.com, some 90,000 titles from Cornell's library shelves will be available as print-on-demand books as well as online. (Feb. 26, 2009)

Arts and immigration panel considers the 'super Latino'
Novelist Junot D’az, M.F.A. '95, and Cornell faculty members considered the growing Latino community and the readiness of the arts to address immigration at a panel discussion Feb. 19. (Feb. 25, 2009)

Noted Japanese language educator died Feb. 11
Eleanor Jorden, who established Cornell as a leading institution for the study of Japanese, died Feb. 11. (Feb. 25, 2009)

Alumni fiction writers recall Cornell years
In a panel discussion Feb. 20, novelists Melissa Bank '98, Junot Diaz '95 and Julie Schumacher '86 praised Cornell's Creative Writing Program and gave advice to aspiring authors. (Feb. 23, 2009)

'The Grapes of Wrath' is Reading Project selection
The Cornell and Ithaca communities will read 'The Grapes of Wrath,' John Steinbeck's classic 1939 novel of Dust Bowl refugees, during the 2009 New Student Reading Project. (Feb. 20, 2009)

BOOM to showcase students' digital work March 4
Bits on Our Minds, the annual expo of student efforts in digital technology, will take place March 4, and the Faculty Innovation in Teaching Program will issue a call for proposals at the end of February. (Feb. 20, 2009)

Rhodes professor Peter Eisenman '56 on campus
Architect Peter Eisenman '56 made his debut as a visiting Frank H.T. Rhodes Class of '56 Professor with three days of events including a public lecture on his Holocaust memorial project in Germany. (Feb. 18, 2009)

Alumni playwrights weekend features readings
The Alumni Playwrights Reunion Weekend at the Schwartz Center will welcome back five accomplished Cornellians and will feature readings of their work, a roundtable discussion and a new play. (Feb. 18, 2009)

Diaz, Bank, Schumacher to conduct writers' panel
The three alumni fiction writers will discuss their careers Feb. 20 at 2:30 p.m. in Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall. (Feb. 18, 2009)

Alumnus commissions concerto to honor Cornell
Charles Staadecker '71 is honoring his alma mater and his 25th wedding anniversary with the commissioning of a concerto to be performed by the Seattle Symphony in April. (Feb. 13, 2009)

Paradise found in contemporary photographs
'Picturing Eden,' on display at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, looks at paradise through the work of 37 contemporary photographers. Nancy Green will lead a tour of the exhibition March 5. (Feb. 13, 2009)

Faculty Senate hears opinions on Milstein Hall
College of Architecture, Art and Planning Dean Kent Kleinman spoke out at a Faculty Senate meeting Feb. 11, stressing the need to build Paul Milstein Hall. (Feb. 12, 2009)

Student scores a high note with New York Philharmonic
The Philharmonic has commissioned Cornell doctoral student Sean Shepherd to write a musical composition, to premiere in April 2010. (Feb. 12, 2009)

Cornell creative writing to be celebrated, discussed, read
Novelist Junot Diaz will receive the Eissner Artist of the Year Award and will participate in a discussion on 'Arts and the Impact on Immigration, Feb. 19. Alumni will read from their work Feb. 20. (Feb. 12, 2009)

Schwartz Center announces new theater season
Cornell's Schwartz Center 2009-10 season begins in September with 'A Servant of Two Masters,' Carlo Goldini's 1753 romantic comedy filled with physical humor and identity switching. (Feb. 12, 2009)

Symposium looks at Australia's aboriginal artists
The Johnson Museum explores Australian aboriginal painting with a new exhibit, 'Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Paintings from Papunya,' and a symposium, 'Papunya Then and Now,' planned for Feb. 14. (Feb. 5, 2009)

Randy Gener wins Nathan Award for dramatic criticism
Gener, senior editor of American Theatre, is the winner of the 2007-08 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, an honor administered annually by Cornell's Department of English. (Feb. 4, 2009)

Anthropologist's images of India, Sri Lanka go online
A collection of visual and written materials on South Asian architecture and material culture assembled by the late Cornell professor and dean Robert 'Scotty' MacDougall is now available to a global audience. (Feb. 2, 2009)

Senior mixes used clothing with organic textiles
Heber Sanchez '09 has reaped a $25,000 Geoffrey Beene National Scholarship for designing a sustainable fashion line for young men that combines second-hand clothing with organic textiles. (Jan. 27, 2009)

Yearlong intensive Arabic program planned
The Department of Near Eastern Studies will launch an Intensive Arabic Program in the fall, with a full semester of language study on the Cornell campus and a semester living and studying in Jordan. (Jan. 22, 2009)

Artist shares her cultural quilts with Parisians
Associate professor Riche Richardson recently spent a week in Paris as a cultural envoy. She gave talks, and her art quilts depicting Barack Obama, Josephine Baker and Simone de Beauvoir were exhibited. (Jan. 22, 2009)

Pulitzer winner Junot Diaz to visit campus Feb. 19-20
Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Diaz, M.F.A. '95, will visit campus in February to kick off a yearlong 'Centennial Plus Five Celebration of Creative Writing at Cornell.' (Jan. 21, 2009)

Schwartz Center celebrates 20 years
After hundreds of performances by thousands of students, the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts is still a very young member of the Cornell family, celebrating its 20th anniversary. (Jan. 16, 2009)

Light in Winter brings science, art and magic to Ithaca
The Light in Winter Festival of Science and the Arts is Jan. 23-25 on campus and other venues in Ithaca. The festival showcases cutting-edge ideas through theater, lectures, music and multimedia events. (Jan. 12, 2009)