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Exhibit sheds light on railways’ discriminatory history
The American rail system has connected people and places across the nation, but its early history is marked by division and violence. A new exhibit …
Atlantic Philanthropies archives open with first batch of files
A treasure trove for scholars of philanthropy and social change is now available at Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections (RMC) as …
Conan O’Brien correspondence with E.B. White surfaces
When two Cornell University Library staffers heard comedian Conan O’Brien talk in his podcast about a letter he sent to famed author E.B. White nearly …
A&S digitization grants program seeks applications
In research, documents and artifacts must be discoverable online to have the broadest impact. Continuing to recognize this need, the Grants Program for Digital Collections …
Exhibit explores history, diversity of manga
At Kroch Library’s Asia Collections, visitors can step into the comic-book universe of the manga genre through the new exhibit Story/Lines: Visual Narratives in Japanese …
‘Cornell According to Sound’ offers sonic look at campus
Chris Hoff ’02 and Sam Harnett have spent the semester on campus just listening – listening to fish, frogs, Latin speakers, particle accelerators, organs and …
Showcase your art on Olin Library elevators! The 2020 theme is “Belonging.”
Cornell students, enter our contest for a chance to showcase your creativity on Olin Library’s first-floor elevator doors and to win a Cornell Store prize, …
Project partners researchers, librarians and AI to fight hunger
For smallholder farmers in the developing world, adopting crops hardy enough to adapt to the droughts, floods, heat waves and frosts of a changing climate …
Design ideas for Uris, Olin libraries to be presented Oct. 30
What does the future hold for Olin and Uris libraries? Consultants for Cornell University Library will present preliminary concepts for reimagining these two iconic buildings Oct. 30, …
Cornell Day of Data shares challenges, tools, collaboration
More than 100 Cornell faculty and staff members, plus graduate and undergraduate students, put their heads together to explore methods and tools for collecting, protecting, …
Five projects awarded 2019 digitization grants
Cornell University Library’s Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences transforms fragile artifacts into lasting online collections for teaching and research. This year, …
New exhibit maps out emotional states
The United States in the shape of a hog, representing the nation’s love of pork. A mosquito turning continents red with malaria. Russia seen as …
Pilot course partners students with incarcerated learners
Cornell undergraduates are deepening their knowledge of Cornell University Library’s abundant scholarly resources by helping those with no access to them: incarcerated students at Cayuga …
Wikipedia edit-a-thon Oct. 6 to honor women in STEM
Fewer than 18% of biographies on Wikipedia are about women, but that can be changed, according to Selena Bryant and Wendy Wilcox of Cornell University …
Remembering physicist Sternglass, who helped the world see man on the moon
The ghostly, black-and-white image of Neil Armstrong setting foot on the moon on July 20, 1969, was a spectacle that has replayed all over the …
Washington letter sheds light on Constitutional Convention
Constitution Day, Sept. 17, is a chance for all Americans to celebrate this nation’s founding document. And Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript …
New Mui Ho Fine Arts Library inspires by design
What sets the Mui Ho Fine Arts Library apart from other libraries is apparent in the sheer volume of the books it contains, visible all …
Historic collection gets fresh start
It’s a job that seems perfectly designed for her. “It doesn’t even feel like a choice,” says Marcie Farwell, the inaugural Gordon and Marjorie Osborne …
Art-science collaboration spotlights pollinator health
The declining population of insects – especially pollinators, such as honeybees and wasps – is a serious threat to ecosystems and agricultural production around the …
Exhibit features first Commencement, first graduates
At Cornell University’s first Commencement, on July 1, 1869, President Andrew Dickson White handed out diplomas in alphabetical order to eight students – and George …