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Apply for 2018 Arts and Sciences digitization grants

Faculty and graduate students are invited to submit proposals for 2018 awards to digitize collections for teaching and research.

Researchers learn the social function of babies’ babbling

New research shows that babies organize mothers’ verbal responses, which promotes more effective language instruction, and babbling is key.

CORALS scholars to explore health of Pacific waters

This spring, six undergraduate students will toss away wool socks, surrender winter coats and flee the Northeast’s slushy roads to gauge ocean health along the Hawaiian and Washington state coasts.

Museum course dives into artistic, literary connections

Students explored texts and artworks with themes of movement, escape and water and curated a gallery installation at the Johnson Museum in a course in the "Connecting Research With Practice" initiative funded by the Mellon Foundation.

Create something at mannUfactory makerspace, opening Feb. 1

The mannUfactory, Cornell University Library’s makerspace, opens Feb. 1 in 112 Mann Library.

Cornell artists win global soil painting competition

A soil painting created by Cornellians won first prize in the university category of a global soil painting competition.

Christopher Dunn to chair new national conservation group

Christopher Dunn, executive director of the Cornell Botanic Gardens, will be the inaugural chair of the new U.S. National Committee of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.

Gifts create new Arts and Sciences professorships

Four new alumni gifts have helped the College of Arts and Sciences create three new professorships and fund a new graduate student position.

U of Puerto Rico students prep to take refuge at Cornell

As students from Universidad de Puerto Rico are getting ready to arrive by mid-January, the campus community is gearing up to give them a warm welcome.