Cornell professor of musicology Judith Peraino will speak at Charter Day: A Festival of Ideas and Imagination, Sunday, April 26, 9-10:30 a.m., at Alice Statler Auditorium.
Faculty considered the future of research libraries in a Feb. 14 forum. Cornell's librarian noted that 60 percent of the library's collections budget goes to licensing electronic content.
A free six-week online course called “EECapacity for Public Garden Educators," co-hosted by Cornell, helps public garden educators transform their natural assets into community resources.
Janis Dickinson, professor of natural resources and director of citizen science at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, has developed YardMap.org to aid citizen scientist conservation.
At a retreat focusing on crime and punishment Feb. 13-15, students in the Posse program along with their mentors discussed the U.S. prison and justice systems and ways to improve them.
In their 'PhDivas' podcast, scholars Liz Wayne and Christine Yao find common ground across the STEM-humanities divide with wit and insight on contemporary culture, social issues and life in academia.
Cornell officially strengthened its already sizable New York City presence Sept. 13 with the dedication of the glittering, futuristic Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island.
Events on campus this week include a concert with soprano Dawn Upshaw, a cross-campus panel on community engagement, student bands on North Campus and Locally Grown Dance at the Schwartz Center. (April 26, 2012)
Twenty-five boxes of Velvet Underground material recently were donated to the library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections by collector and author Johan Kugelberg.