Cornell Bowers CIS celebrates new building

An Oct. 14 ceremony honored the transformative gift from Ann S. Bowers ‘59 that established the college that now bears her name, and celebrated the upcoming construction of a new building complex that will help meet rising demand for education and innovation in the computing and information science fields.

Library exhibit explores fraught history of textile industry

The exhibit “Social Fabric: Land, Labor, and World the Textile Industry Created,” features people and places that supported the textile industry in the U.S. throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

With Okanagan Charter, Cornell to become health-promoting campus

On Oct. 26, Cornell administrators will sign the Okanagan Charter, a formal pledge to promote health and well-being across all facets of university life.

After two-year hiatus, Insectapalooza is ‘Glad to Bee Back’

Cornell entomology students and faculty are pulling out all the stops for the 17th annual festival, which returns after pandemic-related cancellations the last two years.

Crowd gathers to wish ‘happy birthday’ to Fuertes telescope

The Fuertes Observatory and its Friday night open houses, where visitors can marvel at the starry sky through “Irv,” the Irving Porter Church Telescope, were bright spots in a dark pandemic freshman year for Gillis Lowry ’24.

Library events highlight open access research

Library celebrates Open Access Week with talks, panels

Around Cornell

From fabric arts to human waste: Student Biennial projects transcend

More than a dozen students are taking part in the 2022 Cornell Biennial, which aims to serve as an anchor for the arts at Cornell and bring artists from around the world to campus.

How security crises can spur state-building in Latin America

Taxes on elites earmarked for public safety have provided windows of opportunity in Latin America and a blueprint for state-building efforts across the developing world, Gustavo Flores-Macías argues in a new book.

Pollack lauds ‘amazing Cornellians’ in State of the University speech

Cornell’s aspirations and achievements, the success of its ongoing fundraising campaign and its extraordinary faculty and students were highlights of President Martha E. Pollack’s State of the University address, delivered Oct. 14.

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