Nobel laureate promotes economic model to avoid crisis

Robert F. Engle, M.S. ’66, Ph.D. ‘69, who won the 2003 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, spoke on campus Oct. 24 about economics models that can stave off another financial crisis.

Recalling the '93 Day Hall takeover by Latino students

Artist Chon Noriega, curator of a 1993 Arts Quad exhibition that led to the takeover of Day Hall by Latino students, recalled the events in a campus talk Oct. 28.

Cornell plaster casts: 'embraced, defaced and dethroned'

“Firing the Canon,” a College of Arts and Sciences sesquicentennial exhibit, explores how Cornell’s prized collection of plaster casts was “embraced, defaced and dethroned.”

Food systems global summit slated for Dec. 8

Academic experts and industry insiders will gather at Cornell on Dec. 8 for a global summit to discuss new approaches to emerging food system challenges.

Four new MOOCs offered for spring 2015

With Cornell's four new MOOCs for spring 2015, students from all over the world can survey global hospitality management, tour technology inside your smart phone, fix ecologically broken places and explore eating from an ethical perspective.

Confidence propelled NYC restaurateur's career

Restaurant entrepreneur Jeff Zalaznick '05 returned to campus Oct. 23 to offer career guidance to College of Arts and Sciences student.

The Vietnam War on campus, revisited

Former Cornell anti-Vietman War activists return to campus Nov. 10-11 as part of the College of Arts and Sciences’ celebration of the university’s sesquicentennial.

New Swedberg book urges creative theorizing

In his new book, "The Art of Social Theory,” sociologist Richard Swedberg proposes new approaches to creative theorizing.

Memory and music: A Holocaust story

At a community conversation led by professor Jonathan Boyarin Oct. 22, Ithacans gathered to discuss the premiere of the documentary "Blue Tattoo."