Quizzes & Puzzles Which Big Red Ghost Are You? Are you Auntie Pru? Willard Straight? Ezra? A.D. White? Answer 10 Halloween-themed questions and find out!
Cornelliana With Our Custom Pumpkin Stencils, ‘Red’ Is the New Orange! This season brings two additions to our library of carving designs: an homage to the Brain Collection and a toothy McGraw clockface
Alumni Great Gourds! CALS Alum Grows Gigantic Pumpkins At his Connecticut nursery, Alex Noel ’13 nurtures specimens so big, you could use them as a boat (and some people do)
Books Your October 2024 Reads This month’s featured titles include a sci-fi novel, a kids’ book about gravity, and an anti-aging guide—plus a Halloween horror pick!
Storytime with Corey Why Early Cornell Students Took a Sepulchral Shortcut Back when getting to class meant trudging uphill from downtown, the quickest route was through Ithaca’s oldest cemetery
Cornelliana Raise a Glass to the Namesake of Zinck’s Night A legendary Ithaca bartender inspired the annual celebration—and this year, it’s set for October 17
Alumni Annual Alumni Wine Collection Celebrates the Empire State The three offerings for 2024—the program’s seventh year—all hail from New York, spanning from Lake Erie to Long Island
Campus & Beyond These Big Red Volunteers Have Warm Hearts—and Wet Noses For more than 25 years, the canines (and other critters) of Cornell Companions have been bringing joy to the community
Alumni Doctoral Alum Wins Nobel Prize in Physics Princeton prof John Hopfield, PhD ’58, was honored for foundational work in training artificial neural networks
Campus & Beyond Me-ow! Celebrating a Half-Century of Helping the Kitties For the Cornell Feline Health Center’s 50th birthday, we round up some of the cat-tastic discoveries it has facilitated