Speaker series marks 50 years of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The Department of Ecology and Environmental Biology (EEB) will celebrate its 50th year – and the university’s 150th – with a Sesquicentennial Colloquium series in the fall and spring semesters.

Bartels Fellow Hans Rosling finds hope in numbers

Bartels World Affairs Fellow Hans Rosling delivered a lecture on campus Sept. 9 that found hope for the future of the planet in statistics.

Google-funded research will scan clothing and behavior

Computer science researchers will use Google Glass to coach wearers on nonverbal behavior, and 3-D scans to create computer images of soft, deformable objects.

Book uncovers challenges for Indonesian mine

The new book by anthropologist Marina Welker is an ethnographic study of the Denver-based Newmont Mining Corp. and its Batu Hijau Copper and Gold Mine in Sumbawa, Indonesia.

Glacier images, Latin American journals to be digitized

Projects involving historic glacier photography and Latin American journals will contribute to the field of digital scholarship thanks to digitization grants from the College of Arts and Sciences.

Gender studies goes underground at dig in Israel

Students from a spring Gender Archaeology class joined instructors Lauren and Chris Monroe along with Israeli students and faculty at a new dig site in Israel over the summer.

Tere O'Connor Dance Company to perform 'Cover Boy'

The Department of Performing and Media Arts will present the Tere O’Connor Dance Company performing “Cover Boy,” Friday, Sept. 12, at the Schwartz Center.

Cosmologists probe beyond the Big Bang

A tradition of cosmology research on campus has given birth to a vigorous effort by a new generation of cosmologists to understand the thermal radiation left over from the Big Bang.

'Cornell: A History' looks at university's second 75 years

Professors Glenn Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick's book details Cornell's emergence as a modern research university and the ongoing balance between its ideals of freedom and responsibility.