New Africana initiatives connect academics, activism

The Africana Studies and Research Center is launching new initiatives including speakers, mentoring efforts, special events and even classroom renovations, to help students impact the world.

M.H. Abrams remembered with verse, music, stories

A memorial celebration Sept. 12 in Statler Auditorium brought together much of what M.H. "Mike" Abrams cherished - poetry, Elizabethan music, family, friends and colleagues.

Peter Katzenstein sees no new Cold War

In a Sept. 10 campus talk, Peter Katzenstein, Cornell's Walter S. Carpenter Jr. Professor of International Studies, contended that the U.S. and Russia are in a Cold Peace rather than a Cold War.

Roper Center public opinion archive comes to Cornell

The world’s largest public opinion archive – the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, founded in 1947 - will become the Roper Center at Cornell University on Nov. 7.

Deputy director of CIA to speak at Cornell Sept. 17

David S. Cohen ’85, deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency, will deliver the LaFeber-Silbey Lecture in History Thursday, Sept. 17 at 4:30 p.m. at Goldwin Smith Hall.

Donations help create 'supercomputer' for students

State of the art donated equipment by Intel and Dell will create a computer cluster dedicated to a course on parallel computing.

Hidden impatience revealed in linguistics study

Sam Tilsen, assistant professor of linguistics, and colleagues used real-time magnetic resonance imaging to document anticipated vocal responses via the positions of vocal organs.

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.

Cornell No. 15 in U.S. News ranking; Dyson, Eng in top 10

In the 2016 U.S. News and World Report rankings released today, Cornell University was ranked No. 15 among top national schools. The Dyson School and the College of Engineering both ranked in the top 10, respectively.