Using new imaging technology, Cornell University Library confirmed that its copy of a 400-year-old scientific text was stolen from Sweden's National Library in the 1990s. It was returned in June.
Associate professor of English Dagmawi Woubshet finds a "poetics of compounding loss" among mourners responding to AIDS deaths in the U.S. and Ethiopia in his new book, "The Calendar of Loss."
Events on campus in July include free lectures, concerts and performances; Staff Development Day, classic films outdoors on Willard Straight Terrace and a summer earth science symposium.
The Department of Mathematics in Cornell’s College of Arts and Sciences offers a Senior Seminar in which graduate students teach Ithaca High School advanced topics in math.
Cornell University Library honored retiring University Archivist Elaine Engst, M.A. '72, June 17 for her work, and for "implementing changes with grace, humor and style" over her 36-year career.
Professors Adam T. Smith, anthropology, and Lori Khatchadourian, Near Eastern studies, led a mini-course on archaeology for young schoolchildren June 15-19 in Ithaca.
Cornell Tech’s Roosevelt Island campus earns bragging rights when the world's first high-rise residential building built to passive house standards - a rigorous energy use standard - rises on campus.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant of $275,000 to Cornell University in honor of Mellon Vice President Philip E. Lewis on his retirement from the foundation.
