Art and community: Africana Library exhibits quilts

Cornell University Library has launched a new exhibit that celebrates the African American tradition of quilt making as expressions of artistry, history and community.

Partnership expands horizons of humanities doctoral career possibilities

Cornell University Press and the Graduate School have partnered to create a flexible on-campus summer internship to offer humanities graduate students the chance to experience firsthand the work of an acquisitions professional.

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BOOM returns for its 25th year

After a three-year hiatus, Bits On Our Minds, a showcase of cutting-edge digital technology projects created by Cornell students, returns to campus for its 25th anniversary. The event will be held 4-6 p.m. on Thursday, April 27, in Duffield Hall atrium.

Molding of nanowires spurs unanticipated phases

Researchers used thermomechanical nanomolding to create single-crystalline nanowires that enable metastable phases that would otherwise be difficult to achieve.

2023-24 academic year to feature free expression theme

The significance, history and challenges of free expression and academic freedom will be explored as a featured theme throughout the 2023-24 academic year, President Martha E. Pollack will announce April 17.

Edward Meyer ’49, Weill Cornell Medicine benefactor, dies

Edward H. Meyer ’49, a member of Weill Cornell Medicine’s Board of Fellows and devoted benefactor, died April 11 in New York, at age 96.

Celebrating a decade of community in computing

Women In Computing at Cornell creates a supportive network of mentors, develops members’ skills and careers, and does outreach to younger generations. 

Britney Schmidt named one of Time’s 100 most influential people

Time Magazine has named Britney Schmidt, associate professor of astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences and Earth and atmospheric sciences in Cornell Engineering, to the 2023 list of the world’s 100 most influential people.

Students can sign up for minor in public history

Students interested in the way history is reflected in monuments, memorials, museum exhibitions, oral histories and in other ways can now sign up to minor in public history.

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