Events celebrate Chinese composer who also transformed language

Chao Yuen-Ren 1914, composer of the first Chinese keyboard music, was also a ground-breaking linguist who transformed the Chinese language through his scholarship on Chinese grammar and phonology.

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Geologists to visit, study active Chilean volcano

Cornell geologists will deploy monitoring equipment at the remote and active Cordón Caulle volcano in Chile, a site that remained dormant for more than 50 years before erupting in 2011.

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Short films from PMA course selected for festivals

Three short documentaries produced in a Rural Humanities Seminar, taught by PMA Associate Professor Austin Bunn, are headed to film festivals this fall. 

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Winter Session 2025 registration is now open

Online Winter Session classes run January 2–18, 2025.

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ASL program offers performance series, welcomes new faculty

The Linguistics department is also offering three events this semester as part of its ASL Performance Series, with the next one on Oct. 24.

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Brooks students enjoy immersive experience at national conventions

This summer, seven Cornell students traveled to the Republican and Democratic National Conventions with the Brooks School Institute of Politics and Global Affairs (IOPGA) director, former Congressman Steve Israel, and senior associate director Erin King Sweeney to get an inside look at these major political events.

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Hotelie Jen Barnwell ’96 is a champion for independent and boutique hotels

The newest episode of a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Startup Cornell, features Jen Barnwell ‘96, president of Curator Hotel & Resort Collection. 

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EPICC Awards honor engineering faculty, staff for core values

Cornell Engineering hosted its third annual EPICC Awards ceremony on Oct. 15, celebrating staff and faculty whose work reflects the college’s core values: excellence, purpose, innovation, community, and collaboration. 

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Cornell leads subteams on $35M nuclear-powered spacecraft project

The Space Power and Propulsion for Agility, Responsiveness and Resilience Institute, funded by the U.S. Space Force, will be the first to bring fast chemical rockets together with efficient electric propulsion powered by a nuclear microreactor.

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