Events on campus include a Cervantes conference, guest filmmaker Tia Lessin '86, a collaborator of Michael Moore; and book talks on Icelandic history and the ghostlike photography of postwar Spain.
Communication professor Drew Margolin studies human dynamics through social media and has been tracking how people react to presidential candidates on Twitter.
Cornell will hold town hall meetings Oct. 24-26 to answer questions regarding the new array of retiree health plan options that will be available to endowed retirees of Cornell University effective Jan. 1, 2017.
A working group has formed to reduce some of the administrative burdens felt by faculty and academic staff, beginning with developing metrics to calculate the hidden costs associated with implementing new policies and procedures.
A new study in Science reveals that biodiversity in forests promotes productivity. When the number of tree species increases, so does the amount of timber that can be harvested, so the gains from conservation far exceed the costs.
"Witness Project" art installations on sites across campus are featuring representations of and responses to police violence, including photographs from the Black Lives Matter movement.
The Cornell Small Farms Program Farm Ops initiative helped Kreher's Poultry Farm in Clarence, New York, receive approval as the state's first on-the-job training program for military veterans to become farmers.
The Cornell faculty Senate on Oct. 12 passed a resolution encouraging the board of trustees to approve "Cornell Botanic Gardens" as the new name of Cornell Plantations.
Jenny Sabin and collaborator Peter Lloyd Jones debuted their progressive experimental design installation "THE BEACON" Oct. 6, continuing over 10 days at the DesignPhiladelphia 2016 exposition.