Students invent 'Aura' musical instrument

Engineering students build an electronic instrument that lets them shape music with their hands.

New smartphone app helps keep students safe

A free smartphone app, ResCUer, connects users to police, taxis, friends and other safety resources with just a few taps on a smartphones.

Temps affect roofing at Goldwin Smith; Klarman dig on track

Digging begins on schedule Feb. 3 for Klarman Hall, the College of Arts and Sciences’ new humanities building.

Zubrow gift endows economics professorship

Cornell trustee Jan Rock Zubrow ’77 fulfilled a lifelong dream in December with a year-end gift to Cornell’s Department of Economics to establish the Zubrow Professorship of Economics.

Thermostat setbacks over holiday lead to fiscal bonus

By turning down temperatures and unplugging electric devices over the holidays, the Cornell campus combined to save 1,200 metric tons of carbon dioxide from getting pumped into the atmosphere.

Cornell's new Gates Hall is not what it seems

Cornell's Bill and Melinda Gates Hall, home of Computing and Information Science, opened for business this week. The building features "curved lines intersecting with linear angles, lots of glass and light" to inspire creativity and collaboration.

Powers' three volumes look inside Islamic legal thought

David Powers, professor of Islamic history and law in Near Eastern studies, has co-edited a three-volume series on Islamic legal thought through history.

'Titus Andronicus' makes a bloody comeback at Schwartz Center

The Department of Performing and Media Arts will stage one of William Shakespeare’s earliest and bloodiest plays Jan. 31 to Feb. 8 at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.

Renovations bring Cornell Cinema into sharp focus

This spring Cornell Cinema offers patrons a new digital projection system, a new bright screen, live music and visits from directors and producers of some of the films.