Events on campus include a Halloween party at Cornell Cinema, the Cornell University Chorus Twilight Concert, book talks, and a lecture by author and Paris Review editor Philip Gourevitch '83.
Faculty and administrators discussed balancing the rising expense of financial aid against maintaining and enhancing the university’s academic profile at a faculty forum, “Financial Aid Policies: Unimaginable Outcomes?” Oct. 21.
The College of Human Ecology and the School of Hotel Administration have formed the Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures, an academic center combining hospitality, design, health policy and management.
Investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered precisely how certain types of cancers spread to particular organs in the body, supporting the century-old "seed and soil" theory of metastasis.
Samantha Sheppard, an expert on African-American cinema and movie fan, has several scholarly and critical works forthcoming and runs the Voices and Visions in Black Cinema series at Cornell.
Novelist Amara Lakhous spoke about European immigration in an Oct. 22 campus talk and referred to his own journey from Algerian immigrant to Italy to academic and literary success.