Taylor gift will enrich humanities, social sciences at Cornell

The family of Stanford H. Taylor ’50, Chem.Eng. ’51, is continuing his legacy with a $5.2 million gift supporting postdoctoral fellowships and Society for the Humanities initiatives at Cornell.

Good medical facility design boosts care, saves money

Well-designed healthcare facilities lead to better patient outcomes that, in turn, result in money saved for facility owners and patients, according to new Cornell research.

Talks to spark better communication from academics

Cornell Library's SPARK Talks is a new series of five-minute lightning talks given by a multidisciplinary selection of graduate students and postdoctoral associates to general audiences.

Book talks address politics, uncertainty and economic fears

Chats in the Stacks book talks this semester at Olin and Mann libraries feature faculty authors discussing politics and economics as the 2016 presidential election approaches, and other topics from poetry to religion.

Things to Do, Sept. 4-11, 2015

Events on campus this week include new exhibitions at the Johnson Museum, the Rhodes Symposium on gender and demographics, and a memorial tribute to film professor Don Fredericksen at Cornell Cinema.

Things to Do, Aug. 28-Sept. 4, 2015

Events on campus this week include a lecture on plant wisdom, heavy metal fashion, a Russian poet, films by Orson Welles and a panel on Latinos at Cornell.

Hidden Cornell treasures to be digitized

The Grants Program for Digital Collections has made four grants to digitize the Cornell Costume and Textile Collection, Sterrett Photographs collection, the Lindsay Cooper Archive and "On Our Backs."

Fontaine plays Sherlock Holmes with book on rare play

Classics professor Fontaine details his discoveries about an unknown 17th century play by Joannes Burmeister in his new book, "'Aulularia' and Other Inversions of Plautus."

New book examines 'I' vs. 'us' in late antiquity

In a new volume of scholarship co-edited by Eric Rebillard, professor of classics and history in the College of Arts and Sciences, argues that identities tied to events and religion come and go.