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Student receives Kheel Center research award
Workers’ issues were always close to home for Yu An Chen’22, the latest recipient of the Kheel Center’s Undergraduate Research Award for outstanding scholarship using …
Book: Policymakers are failing ‘climate refugees’
Natural disasters may be impossible to prevent, but much of the devastation that occurs in their aftermath – specifically the forced displacement of people – …
Talk to describe conserving centuries-old Chinese encyclopedia
Famous for building the architectural marvel of Beijing’s Forbidden City in the early-15th century, the emperor Zhu Di (known by his imperial name of Yongle) …
Textile exhibit opens with workers’ songs
Librarians are known to be keepers of quiet. But, on Sept. 23 at 5:15 p.m., Caitlin Mathes and Bill Cowdery are hitting the piano keys …
Exhibit calls for textile art
Histories, cultures, and social forces are woven into the clothes we wear and the fabrics decorating our homes, explains Marcie Farwell, the Gordon and Marjorie …
HIV/AIDS exhibit tells story of love and acceptance
Visiting Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections in 2017 to see materials related to the history of HIV and AIDS, Michael Mamp …
Digitization program calls for applications
Got an idea for a digital collection to spark scholarship at Cornell and beyond? Cornell University Library’s Grants Program for Digital Collections wants to hear from you. …
Press director elected president of international association
Jane Bunker, Cornell University Press director, has been elected to be the 73rd president of the Association of University Presses, an organization of more than …
Congratulations to our 2022 Elevator Art Contest Winners!
Our annual Elevator Art Contest gives Cornell undergraduate, graduate, or professional school students the chance to showcase their creative talents, win a Cornell Store prize, …
Library deal to stimulate open access
Research published on an open access basis helps to knock down steep paywalls and reach more readers in need—but, often, authors are expected to cover …
Talks mark exhibits, campus LGBTQ milestones
From April 27 to 28, the “Radical Desire” symposium brings pioneering lesbian feminist scholars, publishers, and photographers to speak at Cornell, in celebration of library …
Kheel Center’s Triangle Fire Site Honored
The Triangle Fire website at the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives has received the American Industrial Hygiene Association’s 2022 Health & Safety Virtual Exhibit of the …
Kheel Center Names Strassberg Grant Winners
The Kheel Center has announced that Mary Vidaver and Ian Gavigan have been selected as this year’s Richard Strassberg Travel Grant award winners. The grant …
Library exhibits complement ‘opera quarrel’
Drawing on Cornell University Library’s deep holdings in eighteen-century opera, an exhibit in conjunction with The Pleasures of the Quarrel performance is now open at …
Library exhibit links sea sculptures, human condition
A new exhibit in the Mann Library lobby will examine the forms and nature of marine invertebrates, reimagined in postmodern materials such as silicone, resin …
Elaine Westbrooks named Carl A. Kroch University Librarian
Elaine L. Westbrooks, vice provost and university librarian at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named the next Carl A. Kroch …
Nuclear Freeze documents digitized
“We will not quietly stand by and watch our world go up in flames and radiation,” the late scholar-activist Randall Forsberg once roused a crowd …
Exhibition features pioneering erotic magazine
From its launch in 1984 to its last issue in 2006, the women-run erotic magazine On Our Backs made good on its tagline of delivering …
Anne R. Kenney, former university librarian, dies at 72
Anne R. Kenney, university librarian emerita, a charismatic visionary who led Cornell University Library through a decade of transformation and growth, died at Hospicare in …
If you create it, we’ll elevate it! Enter for a chance to display your art on Mann & Olin Library elevators. The 2022 theme is “Connection.”
Cornell students, enter our contest for a chance to showcase your creativity on the first floor elevator doors in both Mann Library and Olin Library and to …