Following a rumor that a 16th-century document, part of the Witchcraft Collection in Cornell University Library, was written in blood, a father and daughter investigated.
Oneka LaBennett's students in oral history and urban ethnography over spring break recorded the life stories of Caribbean immigrants living and working in a rapidly gentrifying part of Brooklyn.
Cornell University Library will open its new exhibition, 'Wardrobes and Rabbit Holes: A Dark History of Children's Literature,' Nov. 7 with a lecture by award-winning author M.T. Anderson. (Oct. 30, 2012)
The sounds of the natural environment and their inspiration on composers like Olivier Messiaen – who used recordings from Cornell’s Lab of Ornithology – will be celebrated in a festival March 5-9.
Cornell Arabic literature professor Shawkat M. Toorawa has received a $50,000 post-fellowship award to continue his work on several literary projects. (Aug. 9, 2011)
More than 500 people came to hear about Cornell's historical and current role as an educator of diplomats and influencers of foreign policy, March 8 in New York City.
More than 80 students unveiled their scholarly work at the 32nd annual Spring Research Forum hosted April 27 by the Cornell Undergraduate Research Board.
To study the effects of global warming, scientists will begin collaborating this summer on the New York Climate-Change Science Clearinghouse, a comprehensive, web-based reference, map and database.
Agostino Agazzari's rarely staged 1606 opera “Eumelio” will be mounted by students, faculty and music professionals March 19-20 in the auditorium of Klarman Hall. The opera draws on the Orpheus myth.