Shattered glass: New theory explains how things break

Researchers have explained the physics behind why glass breaks differently than seashells or bone.

Mellon endows Randel music teaching fellowships

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is honoring its outgoing president, Don Randel, former Cornell provost and emeritus professor, with an endowment for graduate student teaching fellowships in music at Cornell.

Frozen in time, cracks reveal earthquake history

A million-year record of several thousand earthquakes in Chile reveals that widely used earthquake modeling may be too simple.

Small meteors punch through Saturn's rings

The finding, published in Science today, makes Saturn’s rings one of the few locations where scientists have been able to observe these impacts in process.

E-text rivals paper in these 'United Slates'

Cornell researchers have created a digital age active-reading system using an array of tablets to combine the best features of paper and electronic text.

Students explore hair and identity in exhibition

History of art students have organized a faculty symposium April 27 on the student-curated exhibition “Hair: Untangling Roots of Identity” at the Johnson Museum, examining hair’s political, social, cultural and artistic contexts.

Library acquires Jewish studies pioneer's archive

Cornell University Library has acquired the archives of historian Leopold Zunz, who laid the foundation for the scholarly study of Judaism.

Locally Grown Dance Festival explores risk

The 2013 Locally Grown Dance Festival, May 1-4 at the Schwartz Center, will feature collaborations on the theme of risk by student and faculty artists from Cornell and Ithaca College.

We need to help immigrants stay in U.S., panelists say

Cornell joined more than 75 colleges and universities to observe the National Day of Immigration Reform with a debate on the issue April 19.