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Were Australia’s lyrebirds the first ‘meme generators’?

Cornell students will study Australia’s Superb Lyrebird to see how their songs have evolved.

Ray Jayawardhana takes the reins at Arts and Sciences

Astrophysicist Ray Jayawardhana became the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences Sept. 1.

Cornell Tech startup to help kids with autism raises $1.13M

A startup founded at Cornell Tech digitizing the way teachers chart autistic children’s progress has raised $1.13 million in venture capital and will work with more than a dozen clinic chains and autism schools in the coming year.

New library exhibit weaves words and sounds together

Mixed Media: The Interplay of Sound and Text showcases artifacts that span centuries of capturing and conveying words and sounds. The exhibition opens Sept. 20.

Cornell to conduct Earth Source Heat seismic survey Sept. 21-25

Cornell will conduct a survey of the sub-terrain on campus and in the towns of Ithaca and Dryden Sept. 21-25, the next step in its plan to implement Earth Source Heat.

Things to Do, Sept. 14-21, 2018

Events this week include "RBG" at Cornell Cinema, plays dramatizing religious and genetic science issues, fall harvest sampling at Cornell Orchards, and a local AAUW celebration of 100 years of social action. 

Alum endows lectures honoring landscape architecture professor

Michael R. Van Valkenburgh ’73 endowed an annual memorial lecture in honor of the late Marvin I. Adleman, professor emeritus of landscape architecture.

New lecture series features transformative life scientists

Cornell’s Life Sciences Lecture Series will feature talks by four speakers who are all interdisciplinary, internationally renowned scientists.

Top music industry expert speaks Sept. 27

Music industry expert Matthew Knowles, father to singers Beyoncé and Solange, will participate in a panel discussion at the Africana Studies and Research Center Sept. 27.

A.D. White Professor-at-Large to speak on race, class, speech

A.D. White Professor-at-Large John Rickford will address race, class and speech in campus events Sept. 17-21 that includes public talks and a screening of his film.

Gift establishes Friedman Center for Nutrition and Inflammation

With a $7.5 million gift from the Friedman Family Foundation, Weill Cornell Medicine has established a cross-campus center dedicated to improving human health through research in the complex relationship between nutrition, inflammation and the development of disease.

Big, blue Everest Seedless is Cornell’s newest grape

Everest Seedless, the newest offering from Cornell’s grape breeders, is a big, bold fruit that comes with a towering history.