Kevin Corinth, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, will give a talk, “Living Standards Across Generations: Are Younger Americans Falling Behind?” April 20 at 5:30 p.m. in 198 Statler Hall, sponsored by Cornell University's Program on Freedom and Free Societies.
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An exhibit of Ukrainian Easter eggs on display in Goldwin Smith Hall
Ukrainian Easter eggs, or pysanky, are on display in Goldwin Smith Hall, lower level, through the end of the semester. The exhibit of work by staff member Lori Radcliff-Woods, is one of several new initiatives Cornell’s Ukrainian Program is undertaking to bring the culture, language and history of Ukraine to the Cornell community.
The Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series at Cornell University closes its 2025-26 season with renowned company Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana at Bailey Hall during a performance on April 11 at 7:30 p.m. The event features QUINTO ELEMENTO (Fifth Element), a new work by dancer/choreographer Patricia Guerrero, featuring an original live score by Francis Gómez.
On April 9 at 4:45 p.m. “Indigenous Voices in Abiayala/Latin America" will explore Indigenous media self-representation in Latin America – the region known as Abiayala in the Guna language. Held in the in the A.D. White House and organized by a Klarman Fellow in Romance studies, the panel will feature scholars discussing Mapuche and Maya K’ishe’ cultural production, Indigenous languages and broadcasters’ fight to sustain native-language media such as Guatemala’s oldest Maya radio station.
Jonathan Zhu, J.D. ’92, whose A.D. White Fellowship allowed him to attend Cornell, has established the Zhu Family Graduate Fellowships supporting humanities doctoral students at Cornell University. Each of the three 2025 fellows appreciates that the fellowship’s financial support paired with release from teaching responsibilities allows them the flexibility to pursue research questions as they arise.
Nobel Laureate John M. Martinis will speak about his research in quantum mechanics from 5-6 p.m. April 8 in the Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Room KG70 in Klarman Hall.
Four Humanities Scholars Program undergraduates and two graduate students attended the National Humanities Alliance Annual Meeting and met with lawmakers.
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Students swab their cheeks in Willard Straight Hall.
Since the early days of modern cosmic exploration, Cornell scientists have led the way, from guiding rovers through the red dust of Mars to searching for other life in the universe.
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One of Arora’s promo shots from the show.
New Cornell research – co-authored by an undergraduate and two recent alumni – will help exoplanet scientists pinpoint the most likely places to look for life in the universe out of more than 6,000 exoplanets.
Cornell math professor Steven Strogatz appears in a new film, “Hunting Yellow Pigs,” that celebrates the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics (HCSSiM) and its unconventional approach to math education. The Cornell Department of Mathematics in the College of Arts and Sciences will host a screening with filmmaker Ming-I Huang on March 24 at 4 p.m. in Schwarz Auditorium, room 201 in Rockefeller Hall.
Cornell dance students will present “Penumbra: 2026 Annual Spring Dance Presenting Series,” a performance of original dance work hosted by the Department of Performing and Media Arts in the College of Arts & Sciences, March 20 and 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Class of ’56 Flexible Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. The show features work by visiting choreographer Babatunji Johnson and Cornell professor of the practice Danielle Russo.
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Peter John Loewen, the Harold Tanner Dean of Arts and Sciences, leads his government class, Disagreement.
In the concert, Hough will play an imaginative program that includes works by Schubert, Brahms, Schoenberg, Beethoven and a suite from "Mary Poppins."
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Seth Klarman ’79 (left) and Bret Stephens discuss the state of journalism and debate in the U.S. March 6 in Klarman Hall.
New York Times White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs will share insights about his work covering immigration, homeland security, criminal justice and inequality in an event March 17 with Dean Peter John Loewen.
Researchers have found that quantum systems in a frozen state can be stabilized long enough to be a useful strategy for preserving information before it disappears.
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A pro-Ukraine protest in London's Trafalgar Square
On the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, what’s notable is the lack of change in the last year, says David Silbey, a professor at Cornell University who specializes in military history and defense policy.
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Héctor Abruña, the Émile M. Chamot Professor in the Department of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences.
The Gustavus John Esseln Award for Chemistry in the Public Interest from the Northeastern Section of the American Chemical Society honors outstanding achievement in scientific and technical work that contributes to public well-being.
Scholar of law Philippe Sands will give the LaFeber-Silbey Lecture in History on March 5, considering "Lessons from History and Literature, from Nuremberg to Pinochet and Beyond.”
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Prof. Alexander Livingston talks with Upward Bound students over winter break during a pilot of the new summer program for high school students.
China's criticism of the United Kingdom’s move to expand its British National (Overseas) visa pathway for Hong Kong residents illustrates how governments courting Beijing, amid frustration with Washington’s volatility, can find engagement with China difficult to manage.
Released on Feb. 6 via Naïve Records, Hamasyan's album "Manifeste" marks a new chapter for one of the most visionary artists working at the intersection of jazz, progressive rock, and global music.
New York Times columnist Bret Stephens, New York Times White House correspondent Zolan Kanno-Youngs and ProPublica investigative reporter Keri Blakinger ’14 will visit Cornell this spring.
… would be the kind of thing which allows people to be their free, truest selves,” Wylie said. “Pulling on that thread is … that “lives devoted exclusively to moral goals may lack the freedom and richness that many find fulfilling,” Wylie said. …
In the public lecture culminating the Black History Month series, Blain will trace how Black women from Ida B. Wells to contemporary Black Lives Matter leaders have used the language and practice of human rights to confront racism and white supremacy.
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Students and alumni met for a summer networking event June 26 in New York City.
Rooted in the Afro-AmerIndian heritage of communities along the Caribbean coasts of Belize, Guatemala and Honduras, Garifuna music blends West African rhythms, indigenous Carib influences and the Arawak language.
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Still from 8 ½ (1963, dir. Federico Fellini)
From midcentury melodramas to speculative visions of technology and the human body—and even a French coming of age story about crafting world class cheese—Cornell Cinema’s spring season offers a varied plate.
The Obadikes have exhibited and performed their interdisciplinary work at The New Museum, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, and The Museum of Modern Art. Their projects include four books, two albums, and a series of large-scale public sound artworks.
… party of leader Nelson Mandela, considered what a future free society would look like and how that goal should be … (with Nelson Mandela as president) and again in subsequent free and fair elections. But what makes it particularly … increasingly subject to apartheid laws restricting their freedom of movement. From the mid-1960s until the end of the …
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Lead rigger Ed Foster guides the movement of the Prime-Cam support raft, a carefully choreographed step in preparing the telescope for shipment.
Gratitude not only makes you feel good, but it helps you live up to your best self and be a better member of society, psychology professor Thomas Gilovich has found.
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From left, Wilson Kan, Marian Caballo and Reya Babu are all graduating this December.
“Chile's vibrant democracy faces a new challenge in a highly polarized second-round presidential election" Dec. 14, says Ken Roberts, professor of government.
Trump’s interest in Honduras is more about U.S. business interests, than democracy, says professor Raymond Craib, a historian of modern Latin America.
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Ligia Coelho, a Postdoctoral Fellow in astronomy in the College of Arts and Sciences and fellow at the Carl Sagan Institute, holds a menstrual cup.
To equip astronauts with health choices for future missions, a Cornell postdoctoral fellow is leading research with AstroCup, a group that recently tested two menstrual cups in spaceflight as payload on an uncrewed rocket flight.
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Kylie Williamson ’26 has been named Navy/Marines Student of the Year by Navy Federal Credit Union, a top honor in the Reserve Officers Training Corps system.
… Kylie Williamson ’26 has been named Navy/Marines Student of the Year by Navy … Kylie Williamson ’26 has been named Navy/Marines Student of the Year by Navy …
Legal scholar Gail Heriot will describe a chain of unintended consequences of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 in her talk "Why We Walk on Eggshells," Dec. 8.
… who studied the eyes of humans and animals, died Oct. 26 in Ithaca. He was 92. … who studied the eyes of humans and animals, died Oct. 26 in Ithaca. He was 92. Howland, professor emeritus of … At various points during his career, Howland served as a visiting professor of optometry or ophthalmology at the …
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Cécile McLorin Salvant at the 2025 Ljubljana Jazz Festival
… p.m. in Lewis Auditorium, G76 Goldwin Smith. The talk, free and open to the public, will also be live streamed; … of Arizona and Oxford University and is the author of “Free Market Fairness” (2012) and co-author of “The …
The two-day event features performances of Farrenc’s chamber music on historical instruments, a reimagining of the salon culture in collaboration with the Johnson Museum of Art, and scholarly presentations.
Joseph Lubeck '78, right, meets with students and Professor Ross Brann during a recent campus visit, where they spoke about Lubeck's grandfather, Morris Escoll '1916, and an essay he wrote about life as a Jewish student at Cornell.
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… Nov. 11 in the Guerlac Room at the A.D. White House, is free and open to the public. “Working at the intersection of … relations among toxicity, healing and memory.” Langwick’s latest book “Medicines That Feed Us,” is forthcoming in …
… Author and historian Kevin Baker will deliver the 2025 Seymour Lecture in Sports History, “More and More is … Historian to explore state of American sports in 2025 Seymour Lecture …
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Book cover: Within the Shop of the Divine
… lights the way into poems that connect people beyond death, visit holy sites, consider Satanic bargains and consult … that imagine a medieval chapel’s construction and that visit a holy site of pilgrimage off the British coast. Other …
… to 3 p.m. in room G10, Biotech Building. The symposium is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is … or interpreters. TIP has continued its operations as a free, student-run program since its founding, connecting … services, contact TIP at translator@cornell.edu or visit their CampusGroups website . …
Five professors from across campus will advocate that their discipline is the most important to save for the future in the annual Apocalypse Debate Nov. 6.
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… Culture and Linguistic Diversity in the South . Her latest nonfiction book examines how Christian missionaries … one of the 100 best children’s books of all time. Her latest , aimed at middle-grade readers, follows a lonely, …
… Trump's move to cut aid to Columbia and enact tariffs is the latest in a string of escalating tensions between the U.S. … in Latin American politics says the move is the latest in a string of escalating tensions between the U.S. …
… Uriel Abulof, a visiting professor in Cornell University’s government … closing a chapter in the two-year war. Uriel Abulof is a visiting professor in Cornell University’s government …
… operate on a simple binary – like the heads or tails of a coin toss. But quantum computers operate on all possible superpositions of the coin flips, meaning that the coin can exist in multiple states at the same time – both …
… The latest book from Heather Alexander ’89 is Haunted USA, which … to chapter books to novels for middle-grade readers. Her latest, Haunted USA : Spine-tingling Stories from All 50 …
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Tanenhaus conversing with Dean Peter John Loewen during “The Man Who Built a Movement: How William F. Buckley Invented Modern Conservativism" on Oct. 9
… Review and the Week in Review and a Times writer at large, visited Cornell Oct. 6-10 as the fall Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist in A&S. He met with students and … Fox News and, more recently, Bari Weiss’ online outlet The Free Press, even as it launched writers like Joan Didion and …
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with violin soloist James Ehnes will perform a program entitled “Postcards from Paris” in the next Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series (DMCCS) production of the 2025-26 season.
Thaler won the Nobel Prize in 2017 for work done in the 1980s at Cornell. He is now the Charles R. Walgreen Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics at the University of Chicago.
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Professor Michelle Smith, standing, works with students involved in an active learning project.
Cornell faculty and graduate students unleash a genre-bending program across seventeen keyboard instruments, from the delicate whisper of the clavichord to the analog punch of the Roland Juno-60.
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William F. Buckley (right) with then-President Richard Nixon at the White House in 1969.
… Auditorium, GS132 Goldwin Smith Hall at 5 p.m., and is free and open to the public. A decade before he died, … Buckley chose Tanenhaus, the fall 2025 Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist in the College of Arts and Sciences, to … to his most private papers. The result was Tanenhaus’ latest book, “Buckley: The Life and the Revolution that …
… This month’s featured titles include the latest by a National Book Award winner and a classical … This month’s featured titles include the latest by a National Book Award winner and a classical … An Ancient Guide to Not Giving In , the volume is the latest entry in the “Ancient Wisdom for Modern Readers” …
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Jimmy Kimmel Live! video taping in 2015
… publisher, former Daily Sun editor, and past Distinguish Visiting Journalist in A&S, whose newspaper will soon be … 2023, Morse returned to the Hill as a Zubrow Distinguished Visiting Journalist in Arts & Sciences. Read an interview …
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Open through Dec. 31, 'Sacred Ground' highlights findings from a four-year archaeological excavation of Ithaca’s St. James A.M.E. Zion Church conducted by Cornell faculty, students and Ithaca school children from 2021–2024.
… won the Nepalese people important human rights and freedoms from an absolute divine right totalitarian … 24/7 news, which hungrily broadcast images of Nepal's then-latest protests onto a global stage, and a young … for what is seen in many quarters as corruption- and party-free leadership are Kul Man Ghising (heroic figure who …
A leading force in Quebec’s progressive francophone folk movement, Le Vent du Nord will perform in the first Dallas Morse Coors Concert Series (DMCCS) on Sept. 20 at 7:30 p.m. in Bailey Hall.
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General Secretary Xi Jinping of the Chinese Communist Party and world leaders attending the 2025 China Victory Day Parade in Beijing.
