With Spirit (and Sousaphones!), the Pep Band Powers Big Red Fandom The student-run group energizes players, taunts the opposition, and catalyzes supporters at home and on the road
Remembering Dave Nulle, Big Red Hockey’s Beloved ‘Zamboni Guy’ A Lynah fixture for decades—famed for the elaborate costumes he wore while resurfacing the ice—has passed away at 84
Far Beyond a Quonset Hut: Fascinating Facts about ILR To celebrate the school’s 80th birthday, we offer 17 delightful details about its history and achievements
A Visit to Sage Chapel’s Crypt, Resting Place of Eminent Cornellians More than a dozen people—including the Founder—are interred below an ornate chamber known as the memorial antechapel
Our Latest Jack-o’-Lantern Stencil Celebrates a Famed Big Red Prank Put a pumpkin on McGraw Tower—on a pumpkin—for a meta interpretation of a Halloween legend!
‘Meet You at the Straight!’: Beloved Student Union Celebrates a Century Built during the Jazz Age, the campus landmark was designed ‘for all activities other than the athletic and the academic’
Prolific Campus Architect Couldn’t Wait for a Department—Or a Degree From Eddy Gate to the iconic clocktower to the president’s villa, William Henry Miller 1872 shaped a young Cornell
‘A Dashing Personality’: Remembering Willard Straight 1901 The hall’s namesake launched the precursors to both Dragon Day and Slope Day, wed the love of his life, and died in his late thirties
How Cornell Became Home to the World’s First Outdoor Electric Lights In the 19th century, a pioneering ‘dynamo’ not only lit up the campus—it sparked advances in engineering research on the Hill
Gothic Castle on the Hill: Fascinating Facts about Risley Hall A detail-driven history tour of the beloved campus landmark—from its Hogwarts-style great room to its (rumored) resident ghost