Soprano Dawn Upshaw visits campus as A.D. White Professor-at-Large

Upshaw, winner of five Grammys and a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, will present “Salon Solèy: Inhabiting Text & Music in Contemporary American Art Song,” at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 22 in Barnes Hall.

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Y Combinator founder Paul Graham ’86 to talk startups Oct. 28

Graham will give a lecture titled “How to Turn Yourself Into a Startup Founder” in Kennedy Hall’s Call Auditorium.

‘Rooted in Reciprocity’: Indigenous students share stories of how plants fuel connection

Through plants and personal stories, a new student-led exhibit at Cornell Botanic Gardens explores the concept that people live because the natural world lives.

‘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.

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.

Exhibit weaves together clothing, work and the environment

A Cornell University Library exhibit, “Weathering the Storm,” which examines the intersection of the environment, labor and workwear, opens Oct. 8 at the ILR School’s Catherwood Library.

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.

A.D. White Professors-at-Large Program opens 2026-27 call for nominations

Cornell faculty members, academic departments and groups of departments are invited to submit nominations for the A.D. White Professors-at-Large Program in the fields of arts, humanities, life sciences and physical sciences. 

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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.