Second annual “Freedom Party” to celebrate joy, freedom, and learning

The Freedom Party, a block-party style festival that emphasizes community connection, storytelling, and creative and academic freedoms, returns on Saturday, Sept. 19 from 1–4 p.m. at Greater Ithaca Activities Center in downtown Ithaca.

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Locksley Edmondson, scholar of the African diaspora, dies at 92

Edmondson joined the Africana Studies and Research Center faculty as an assistant professor in 1983, becoming a full professor in 1987 and retiring in 2017.

‘Heritage Forensics’ investigates cultural heritage caught up in war

Researchers from Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences have developed a forensics framework to document cultural heritage destruction. Their new book, "Heritage Forensics," examines threats to historic sites and advances methods for protecting endangered cultural heritage in war zones. 

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Cornell Cinema unveils Fall 2026 season featuring high school hijinks, film noir

The cinema's fall 2026 season bridges Hollywood spectacle, restored classics, animation and documentary filmmaking.

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Professor, students produce films for Obama Presidential Center

Jeffrey Palmer, associate professor in the Department of Performing and Media Arts, worked with former president Barack Obama and his advisers to create two films for the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago.

Research Matters returns, following ideas from the lab to real life 

The second season of Research Matters, a Cornell video podcast, drops today, with a way-too-relevant episode on why we don't always do the things we know we should.

Bunn named provost’s fellow for public engagement

Austin Bunn, professor of performing and media arts in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been appointed provost’s fellow for public engagement. 

Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series announces dynamic 2026-27 Season

The 2026-27 DMCCS season includes Chucho Valdés, Time for Three with the Cornell Symphony Orchestra, Isabelle Faust and Sunny Jain.

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Martie Young, ‘great hero’ of Johnson Museum of Art, dies at 96

Martie Wing Young, professor of the history of art, emeritus, died on July 12 in Prescott, Arizona.