Filters
Topics
Campus & Community
Colleges & Schools

Things to Do, Oct. 21-28, 2016

Events on campus include "Walking with 'Trane" at the Schwartz Center, SPARK Talks by emerging scholars, a new teen film on Korean identity and talks on game design and endangered foods.

Cornell Dairy to launch campus co-op

The Cornell Dairy Cooperative provides a new way to buy ice cream, milk, cheese, yogurt and other dairy products made on campus at wholesale prices.

Masten to give Gottschalk Lecture on Marlowe play

Jeffrey Masten of Northwestern University delivers the annual Paul Gottschalk Memorial Lecture Oct. 27, on "Christopher Marlowe’s Queer Reformations: Heresy, Theory, Book History."

By nixing coal, Iceland grabs green with geothermal heat

As Cornell considers geothermal heat to warm campus, an Icelandic engineer told a green backstory for how his country abandoned coal and then set standards to achieve blue-ribbon blue skies.

3 faculty elected fellows of American Physical Society

Astronomer Rachel Bean, physicist Csaba Csaki and biologist Mingming Wu are among 248 fellows elected by the American Physical Society this year.

Lecture to tackle link between politics, religion in U.S., Nov. 3

Princeton historian Kevin Kruse will deliver the LaFeber-Silbey Lecture, "Make America Born Again: Religion and Politics in the 2016 Campaign,” Nov. 3, at 4:30 p.m. in Room 165 McGraw Hall.

Coalition taps private sector to help nature pay for itself

Cornell has co-founded a global coalition to help preserve the world's most important ecosystems. The coalition will create new opportunities for private investment in conservation and sustainable development.

Oct. 24 lecture to probe emotions of humans, animals

An upcoming University Lecture by Jaak Panksepp, professor at Washington State University, will explore the science behind animal and human emotions.

$1.2M grant to help Cornell eradicate potato pest

A $1.2M state grant announced Oct. 14 will update facilities at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences as Cornell ramps up efforts to eradicate the golden nematode, which strikes potato crops.

Stucky's opera 'The Classical Style' to be staged Oct. 30

The Ithaca premiere of "The Classical Style: An Opera (of Sorts)," the last large-scale work by the late professor emeritus of composition Steven Stucky, will be staged Oct. 30 by Triphammer Arts.

Soil Health Trailer extends Cornell's reach

The New York Grazinglands Coalition Soil Health Trailer is a rolling lab equipped to demonstrate the value of healthy soil while illustrating the dangers that can lurk both above and beneath.

Lindseth Climbing Center unveiled in rededication event

Following an $850,000 upgrade and expansion, the Lindseth Climbing Center and new Sklar Lead Wall were reopened to the public in a ribbon-cutting ceremony Oct. 16 in the Ramin Room.