Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize winner and Holocaust writer, to speak at Cornell Nov. 4

Elie Wiesel will speak in Bailey Hall on the campus Nov. 4 at 8 p.m. Imprisoned in the Nazi death camps Auschwitz and Buchenwald at age 15, Wiesel survived to write about the horrific experience in such books as Night.

Cornell economist urges changes in minimum wage policies

While the House of Representatives considers a bill that would raise the minimum wage by $1 over three years to $6.15 an hour, a Cornell economist asserts that the minimum wage is an outdated mechanism that does not help the working poor fight poverty.

Cornell University Library receives $331,000 preservation grant for its anti-slavery collection

Cornell University Library has received a $331,000 grant to conserve its extensive Samuel May Anti-Slavery Collection.

Prominent guest speakers visit during Latino Heritage Month; help launch yearlong series

The Latino Studies Program at Cornell is welcoming two prominent guest speakers in October and is celebrating Latino Heritage Month with its annual Unity Dinner.

Cornell small-business clinic offers legal, business and other services to local child-care providers

How should a home-based child-care provider set up a partnership, plan her liability insurance and more. These a few challenges facing an interdisciplinary team of 12 Cornell University students working as part of the new Cornell Small Children/Small Business Project.

Some of best Earth-bound images yet of distant planet Neptune captured by Cornell-designed camera on Palomar telescope

The heavens are sharper than ever before to the Earth-bound watcher, thanks to astronomers at Cornell and NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Cornell researchers have built an infrared camera for the California Institute of Technology's 200-inch Hale telescope.

Was July an omen that another subway series might be warming up?

In the immortal words of Yogi Berra, it's like déjà all over again. The New York Yankees and the New York Mets, now playing in each of their league's championship series, appear to have climatological history on their side.

Dying to be heard, Africa's forest elephants are targets of large-scale acoustic monitoring effort

Biologists and acoustic engineers based at Cornell will join researchers at two sites in Africa in a new program to monitor the numbers and health of forest elephants by eavesdropping on the sounds they make. New monitoring procedures will be tested in the Central African Republic.

Cutting-edge social anthropologist from Australia will speak on politics of multiculturalism

Ghassan Hage, a cutting-edge figure in Australia's influential cultural criticism and the arts movement, will deliver a University Lecture Friday, Oct. 22, at 4:40 p.m. in Kaufmann Auditorium of Goldwin Smith Hall .