Dead & Co. to play benefit at Barton Hall, honoring legendary ’77 show

Exactly 46 years since they trucked into Cornell and delivered one of the most iconic and beloved performances of their long, strange career, remaining members of the Grateful Dead will return, as Dead & Company, to play a fundraiser concert in Barton Hall on May 8.

Cornell Law to open Blassberg-Rice Center for Entrepreneurship Law

A new center for entrepreneurship – operating both in Ithaca and on the Cornell Tech campus in New York City – will deepen Cornell Law School’s commitment to supporting entrepreneurship initiatives through clinical education.

Peace Games underscore options to war

The Cornell-sponsored Congressional Staff Peace Games brought high level House and Senate staff members together to game plan a nonviolent response to a simulated international crisis. Steve Israel, director of the Institute of Politics and Global Affairs, directed the event.

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‘Wrinkles’ in time experience linked to heartbeat

New Cornell psychology research finds that our moment-to-moment experience of time is synchronized with, and changes with, the length of a heartbeat.

Communicator visits campus to explore math in everyday life

A mathematician and author of best-selling books that speak to math’s societal and technological roles in the world will visit campus March 13-17 as an A.D. White Professor at Large.

Hospitality leaders to convene at Nolan School program in June

Cornell's Nolan School will host its annual Professional Development Program for hospitality executives in Ithaca, New York, this summer in June on the Cornell University campus.

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Clown play explores the heartbreak and humor of aging

In the new performance work “Heading into Night: a Clown Ode on…(forgetting),” director Beth Frances Milles ’88, associate professor of performing and media arts in the College of Arts and Sciences, investigates the poignancies of memory.

Fashion show returns to Barton Hall on March 11

“In Retrospective Forethought” – looking backward and ahead – is the theme for the 39th annual CFC Spring Runway Show, March 11 beginning at 4:30 p.m. The show will cap “Cornell Fashion Week,” which begins March 4.

Robot provides unprecedented views below Antarctic ice shelf

The Icefin team’s observations revealed more than a century of geological processes beneath the Ross Ice Shelf near where it meets Kamb Ice Stream, and will inform models of sea-level rise.