Events this week include a plant sale and workshop; film series featuring cinematic cities and French-language cinema; a book talk on fighting aquatic diseases; and a humanities conference on energy.
Mary Beth Norton, the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History, has been elected president of the American Historical Association. Her one-year term as president will begin in January 2018.
Gerard Aching's book 'Freedom from Liberation' is a social, psychological, historical and literary study centered on a 19th-century Cuban poet's slave narrative, the only such work to surface in the Spanish-speaking world.
Cornell University Police is seeking the public's help in gathering information related to a suspicious device that was removed from campus April 28 by the Endicott Bomb Squad.
Robert S. Harrison, chairman of the Cornell University Board of Trustees, announced Monday that President Elizabeth Garrett died Sunday night after battling colon cancer.
Cornell University’s long-term investments earned a 3.4 percent rate of return in fiscal year 2015, and despite challenging market conditions, the endowment reached a record high value of $6.3 billion.
Graduate students serving on the General Committee of the Graduate School now have full voting privileges on legislation and policy, the Graduate School has announced.
In a message to the community, President David Skorton urged reaching "out to one another with sympathy and concern," following the recent accidental deaths of a student and staff member.
Benefits open enrollment for endowed faculty and staff will run through Nov. 19 for coverage effective Jan. 1, 2018, allowing them to enroll in or make changes to health and dental plan coverage.