Janet Reno '60, first female U.S. attorney general, dies at 78

Janet Reno ’60, who went from leading Cornell's Women's Student Government Association to becoming the United States' first female attorney general, died from complications of Parkinson's disease Nov. 7. She was 78.

Campus activities to focus on veterans, military personnel

Cornell is honoring veterans and military personnel through an array of activities leading up to and including Veterans Day, Nov. 11. And for the first time, Cornell has lit McGraw Tower green to honor veterans.

Trump a 'grave danger' to U.S., Munday lecturer says

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eugene Robinson reflected on "Election 2016: Who’s Up, Who’s Down and What’s Really Going On" as this year's Munday Distinguished Lecturer Oct. 27.

Introducing new members of the faculty for 2016-17

Introducing new members of Cornell's faculty for 2016-17.

Musicologist Piekut publishes book on improvisation

The two-volume "Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies" feature distinguished senior and emerging scholars from across the human, social and natural sciences.

Students of ancient theater to stage 'Oedipus' Nov. 10-12

Sophocles' tragedy "Oedipus (Tyrannus)," translated and directed by professor of classics Frederick Ahl, will be performed on campus Nov. 10-12 by students in Ahl's course Ancient Theatre Performance.

Faculty give their take on an unsettling presidential election

Anxiety, distrust, rigged elections, polarization, demographic change and racial resentment are all themes surrounding America’s 2016 presidential election, according to a Nov. 1 panel discussion.

'Skin' was theme of Society for the Humanities event

The Society for the Humanities fall interdisciplinary conference, "Performing Skin," explored the year's focal research theme: "skin," Oct. 21 and 22 in the A.D. White House.

Soda prices may only partly bubble up if taxes pass

With soda taxes on the ballot in four cities Nov. 8, and a law on deck in 2017 in another, behavioral economist John Cawley says these taxes have increased soda prices by only half as much as they were intended to.