‘Medicines that feed us’ promote healing in a toxic world

In a new book, anthropologist Stacey Langwick explores plant-based healing and sustainable farming practices in Tanzania that treat bodies and lands as inseparable.

October lectures explore autocracy, communism and U.S.-China-Russia relations

Cornell University’s “Unmasking the CCP” lecture series will feature talks by former U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul Oct. 23 and historian Frank Dikötter Oct. 27 on democracy, communism and China’s international role. 

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Jazz master Chucho Valdés birthday celebration opens concert series Oct. 23

The 2026-27 Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series begins at Bailey Hall celebrating Chucho Valdés and featuring Joe Lovano and Etienne Charles. 

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Cornell mathematicians win grants to ensure AI safety, research integrity

As mathematicians work through challenges related to AI, Cornell math faculty members are leading the field with work integrating AI into math and mathematics into AI.

Exploring the solar system through Cornell's image library

This year marks the forty-sixth anniversary of the Spacecraft Planetary Image Facility's technical research and outreach activities.

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Critic and art historian speaks on art, architecture and democracy

At a talk hosted by Cornell University’s Program on Freedom and Free Societies on Oct. 19, Brian T. Allen will discuss how democracies judge art and architecture.

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Reeve Parker, professor emeritus of literatures in English, dies at 89

A. Reeve Parker, professor emeritus of literatures in English in the College of Arts and Sciences and a scholar of British Romanticism, died Sept. 16 in Ithaca, New York, at age 89.

Films to watch for Orange Shirt Day, Sept. 30

Cornell Cinema and the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program suggest films for the Cornell community to watch and reflect on for Orange Shirt Day.

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Ancient texts offer timely lessons on speaking freely

In his new book, “How to Speak Freely,” classicist Michael Fontaine of the College of Arts and Sciences shows that thousands of years ago, Athenians were struggling with the same topics societies struggle with today.