Keuka College Constitution Day event to be recorded by C-SPAN
KEUKA PARK — A Sept. 17 Constitution Day presentation at Keuka College examining the role of America's first ladies will be recorded by C-SPAN for a later national broadcast. The free public program begins at ... more
Back-to-school stress is here: What New York parents should know as classes resume
As students across New York return to classrooms, the transition back to school is bringing more than new schedules and homework. It can also trigger anxiety, sleep problems and added stress for children and parents ... more
Psyche mission leader to speak at Cornell Sept. 11
The leader of NASA's Psyche mission will give a free public lecture at Cornell University on Friday, Sept. 11. Lindy Elkins-Tanton will speak at 7 p.m. in Rockefeller Hall's Schwartz Auditorium about the mission to ... more
Why Family Trust Matters When a Teen Is in Crisis: Lessons From Turning Winds’ Family-Centered Mission
The call may come at an unexpected hour. Or there may be no call at all, only a parent sitting across from a school counselor and hearing words they never imagined they would face: their ... more
HWS professor connects transgender history with theater and media
A Hobart and William Smith Colleges professor is using theater, film and archival research to bring overlooked parts of transgender history to wider audiences. Joshua Bastian Cole-Kurz, a visiting assistant professor of gender, sexuality and ... more
$4.5 million gift will expand summer science research at HWS
Hobart and William Smith Colleges will use a planned gift of more than $4.5 million from the estate of Dr. Edward J. Tapper to permanently support summer science research for students. Tapper, a 1964 Hobart ... more
Cornell workshop finds human coordination central to AI development
A Cornell University workshop exploring how artificial intelligence could speed software development concluded that governance, clear goals and cross-campus cooperation remain central to successful AI projects. Thirty faculty and staff members from Cornell and Weill ... more
Cornell to host free lecture on songbird migration Sept. 9
Cornell University will host a free public lecture Sept. 9 on lessons from more than three decades of songbird migration research. Sara Morris has studied migration at a long-term bird-banding station on Appledore Island, Maine, ... more
Cornell Law welcomes 218 students in record-selective J.D. class
Cornell Law School welcomed 218 first-year students in the J.D. Class of 2029 after receiving nearly 6,000 applications, a 29% increase from the previous year. The class entered with a median LSAT score of 173 ... more
Cornell Law welcomes 103 students to international LL.M. class
Cornell Law School welcomed 103 students representing 26 countries to orientation for its General Master of Laws Class of 2027. The incoming class has an average age of 25, and 56% of the students have ... more
Fall training in Canandaigua: What does Practice Time Sports have planned?
Cooler weather does not have to put player development on pause. Practice Time Sports is preparing a fall and winter lineup designed to give Canandaigua-area athletes more opportunities to practice, compete and remain active indoors ... more
URMC retina model reveals early damage in rare childhood disease
University of Rochester Medical Center researchers have developed a human retina model that may clarify how a rare inherited disease causes early vision loss in children. The three-dimensional, stem-cell-derived model mimics interactions between light-sensing photoreceptors ... more
Cornell ILR launches annual McKersie Labor Day lecture
Cornell ILR School Dean Alexander Colvin will deliver the inaugural Robert and Nancy McKersie Labor Day Lecture on Sept. 4 in Ithaca. The public event, titled "McKersie on Labor at America's 250th," begins at 1:30 ... more
HWS enrollment tops 2,000 as first-year class grows
Hobart and William Smith Colleges will welcome 552 first-year students and 28 transfers this fall, pushing total enrollment above 2,000 after a more than 20% increase in the incoming class. The Geneva colleges said they ... more
Keuka College opens 2026-27 academic year
Keuka College formally opened its 2026-27 academic year Aug. 21 with an academic convocation for more than 200 new students in Norton Chapel. The ceremony concluded several days of orientation for the Class of 2030 ... more
Cornell joins $27.9 million quantum hardware institute
Cornell researchers will help lead a new $27.9 million National Science Foundation institute focused on developing materials and manufacturing methods needed to build quantum processors at scale. The five-year MARQUIS institute, led by Princeton University, ... more
Schuyler Public Health plans 100th anniversary open house
Schuyler County Public Health will mark 100 years of service with an open house and student art show from 4 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 23, at its new offices in Watkins Glen. The free ... more
Farley appointed assistant principal at Geneva High School
Benjamin Farley has been appointed assistant principal at Geneva High School, the Geneva City School District announced Tuesday. Farley joins the district from the Rochester City School District, where he worked as an English for ... more
Free quit-vaping support offered to college students this fall
College students trying to quit vaping can get free coaching, medication support and confidential text messages through the state's tobacco and nicotine quitline as campuses begin the fall semester. The DropTheVape texting program provides six ... more
