Some 3,500 incoming freshmen and new transfer students will discuss John Steinbeck's 1939 novel in depth during campuswide discussions Aug. 23-24, part of the ninth annual New Student Reading Project. (Aug. 18, 2009)
Events on campus this week include a 'Lines of Control' symposium, 'The Vagina Monologues' in Bailey Hall, a book talk on food policy, and an event celebrating South Asian wedding traditions. (March 1, 2012)
Bow ties, the Big Red Marching Band, a giant clock tower cake and a long line of well-wishers filled Barton Hall May 1 to bid President David Skorton and Professor Robin Davisson a fond farewell after nine years at Cornell.
Astronomers led by Cornell research associate Lei Hao find new evidence of a dusty torus surrounding active galactic nuclei. The evidence, published in the June 1 issue of Astrophysical Journal Letters, supports the unified theory of active galactic nuclei.
Beth and Stephan Loewentheil, J.D. ’75, have donated a rare Civil War-era photograph album compiled for the Comte de Paris. It becomes Cornell University Library's 8 millionth volume.
Germinating from a campus incubator, Uma Bioseed – a startup business developed by Cornell MBA students – has won the 2015 New York Business Plan Competition, winning a $100,000 grand prize.
Celebrating its first year of research projects in India, the Tata-Cornell Agriculture and Nutrition Initiative briefed faculty and students on drinking-water system projects, research on iron nutrition for women, and a food fortification study.
Cornell University Library's copy of the Emancipation Proclamation will be displayed Feb. 11-18 in Kroch Library as part of the exhibition 'Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation at 150.'
Cornell's Math Club hosts Puzzle Nights monthly (where all, including high school students are invited), which includes cookies and camaraderie. Attendees don't have to be good at computation.