Mayfest, Cornell’s international chamber music festival, returns May 15-19

After a two-year break, music faculty are bringing back Mayfest, featuring a new commission by Cornellian Joseph Phibbs, a tribute to his teacher, Steven Stucky. 

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Two doctoral students selected as Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellows

City and regional planning doctoral students Manoel Pereira Neto and Gauri Nagpal were selected as two of 50 Mellon/American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Dissertation Innovation Fellows.

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Ten inducted into Bouchet Honor Society

Ten doctoral candidates were inducted into the Cornell Chapter of the Bouchet Graduate Honor Society, which recognizes outstanding scholarly achievement and service in doctoral education.

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Building and Unbuilding the City Museum: From Le Corbusier to Ahmedabad

Architecture Associate Professor Lily Chi in collaboration with architect and educator Sarosh Anklesaria (M.Arch. II ’08) coedited this collection of essays examining the cultural center’s ambitious beginning, present precarity, and possible futures.

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Humanities scholars tackle research across disciplines

The work of the Humanities scholars spans across humanities fields and also highlights intersections with science, technology, business, law and other disciplines. 

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Roper Center announces 2026 student scholars advancing public opinion research

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research has announced its 2026 cohort of student scholars, supporting emerging researchers whose work advances the study of public opinion and its role in shaping policy and society.

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Pamela Herd to discuss administrative burden, policy, and inequality

Pamela Herd, a prominent sociologist from the University of Michigan, will come to Cornell at the end of this month to detail the broader public implications of administrative burden—from policy spaces to public understanding—including what it means to be a public sociologist who directly engages policy to make government better.

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Campus-wide career development model to connect students more directly to opportunity

Cornell unveils the Cornell Career Network, a reimagined career development model designed to enhance exploration and access to opportunity, while aiming to make career readiness and support more integrated into the student experience.

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Morally diverse communities more accepting of norm violations

Individuals in a morally diverse community tend to believe that the community’s norms are looser. In turn, norm violations are more accepted, and there is a reduced willingness to police transgressions, according to research by Merrick Osborne, assistant professor of organizational behavior at the ILR School.

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