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Man Booker Prize winner Marlon James gives free reading Oct. 12

Award-winning Jamaican historical novelist and educator Marlon James, author of “A Brief History of Seven Killings,” will read from and discusses his work Oct. 12 in Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall.

NY Times’ Nicholas Kristof talks inequality, empathy, children

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times delivered the Urie Bronfenbrenner Centennial Lecture Oct. 2.

Hatfield lecturer to explore sustainable capitalism Oct. 12

Unilever CEO Paul Polman, the 35th Robert S. Hatfield Fellow in Economic Education will discuss “The Case for Sustainable Capitalism” Oct. 12.

VP Malina gives update on campus climate and inclusion efforts

Vice President for University Relations Joel M. Malina sent a message to the Cornell community Oct. 3 on campus climate and inclusion efforts.

Manipulating nature with X-ray lasers is topic of Oct. 18 lecture

Physicist Margaret Murnane in this fall’s Hans Bethe Lecture Oct. 18 at 7:30 p.m. in Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall.

Atomic bomb survivor calls for peace in interfaith series lecture

Toyokazu Ihara, a survivor of the United States’ 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, spoke about the threat of nuclear weapons Sept. 28.

Mathematician to examine gerrymandering solutions in Kieval Lecture

Mathematician Moon Duchin of Tufts University will discuss how mathematicians can contribute to the redistricting process Oct. 5.

Endowment performance ‘solid,’ hits highest total ever

Cornell University’s endowment returned 12.5 percent for the year ending June 30, bringing its value to $6.8 billion, its highest total to date.

Cornell Tech leverages academic links with Cornell campuses

The new Roosevelt Island campus of Cornell Tech has catalyzed a slew of innovative academic programs that will benefit not only Cornell Tech students but also students from the Ithaca campus.