For the first time, the annual Lauren Pickard ’90 Emerging Artists Series in Willard Straight Hall, held Nov. 14, included an art gallery of student work. The event traditionally showcased up-and-coming musical acts.
The dairy industry could lose billions of dollars if President Trump imposes tariffs on products from China, Canada and Mexico, and begins deporting undocumented immigrants, a dairy economist said at a conference at Cornell last week.
Chao Yuen-Ren 1914, composer of the first Chinese keyboard music, was also a ground-breaking linguist who transformed the Chinese language through his scholarship on Chinese grammar and phonology.
At Cornell, the GRAMMY-nominated quartet will perform works by Caroline Shaw, Haydn, Shostakovich, and a selection of their original compositions and traditional folk tunes.
An $11.5 million gift from entrepreneur C. Kenneth Grailer ’53 will support the Nolan School of Hotel Administration by expanding the Center for Hospitality Research, helping renovate the Grailer Food Labs and providing scholarships.
The newest episode of “Startup Cornell,” a podcast hosted by Entrepreneurship at Cornell, features Josh Gully ’83, managing director of NewEdge Wealth.
In the same way that terrestrial life evolved from ocean swimmers to land walkers, soft robots are progressing, too, thanks to recent Cornell research in battery development and design.
The installation designed by AAP's Jennifer Newsom and Tom Carruthers is one of nearly 200 artworks featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876-Now" exhibition, open through Feb. 17.