Rand Hall will be transformed over the next 18 months as the home of the Mui Ho Fine Arts Library, a state-of-the-art facility on the building's top two floors.
Events this week include a Cornell Chorus community concert; Festival 24 and auditions for Performing and Media Arts productions; "45 Years at the Johnson Museum" and a film series on women scientists and inventors including Hedy Lamarr.
Computing and Information Science is offering two summer programs designed to recruit and support underrepresented minorities in graduate computing fields.
Toppling a widespread assumption that a “lactation” hormone only cues animals to produce food for their babies, Cornell researchers have shown the hormone also prompts zebra finches to be good parents.
As a result of tax reform passed by Congress in December, changes to the amount of federal tax withheld will be reflected in the Jan. 31 paycheck of Cornell employees paid semimonthly and Feb. 8 for those paid biweekly.
A weekend of events was held for 62 Puerto Rican students who will receive free tuition and room and board for a semester at Cornell in the wake of Hurricane Maria.
New Cornell research explains why languages with many speakers, like English or Mandarin, have large vocabularies with relatively simple grammar – and why those with fewer speakers have the opposite characteristics.