Olin Library to hold reopening celebration Aug. 27

The celebration also features a welcome speech at 12:15 p.m. by Elaine L. Westbrooks, Carl A. Kroch University Librarian, and open houses for the new Anthropology Collaboratory and Library Map Collection.

Book details Jews’ two-century fight against Roman Empire

Barry Strauss ’74 shines a light on the resilience the Jews of Judea showed in their rebellion against the Romans.

In new book, Farred breaks down his long-time sports fandoms

Grant Farred, a professor in the Africana Studies and Research Center, chronicles his love for both a distant and a local sports team in “A Sports Odyssey: My Ithaca Journal,” published July 25 by Temple University Press

Carl Sagan Medal awarded to astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger

The award recognizes and honors outstanding communication by an active planetary scientist to the public. 

Margaret Rossiter, historian of women in science, dies at 81

Margaret Rossiter, the Marie Underhill Noll Emerita Professor of the History of Science in the College of Arts and Sciences (A&S) and known worldwide for her studies of the history of women in science, died Aug. 3. She was 81.

Censorship from the other side of the aisle

A book from Adam Szetela Ph.D. ’25 explores a new version of self-censorship in the publishing world.

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Listen to the ancients: Don’t cave to peer pressure, improper requests

“How to Have Willpower: An Ancient Guide to Not Giving In,” edited and translated by professor Michael Fontaine, brings together a pair of works by Plutarch and Prudentius that show how people can overcome pressures that encourage them to act against their own best interests.

Festival celebrates pianos in history, history in pianos

Musicians, scholars and instrument makers will gather at Cornell Aug. 5-10 for Forte | Piano 2025: Crafting Soundscapes, a conference and festival exploring dimensions of historical keyboard practice from performance and scholarship to instrument making and listening.

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Modern theory of music perception posited by 1700s potter

A new book by Carmel Raz focuses on the work of John Holden, an 18th-century potter who also wrote an influential treatise on musical theory.