Your November 2025 reads
This month’s titles featured in Cornellians include poetry, a famed restaurateur’s memoir, and a chronicle of the 1929 stock market crash
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Nexus Scholar alumni profile: Jacqueline Allen ’23
"I got a taste of what neuroscience research is really like."
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New course encourages students to embrace disagreement
A new course being offered will give students the chance to consider some of the most polarizing issues in our world today.
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To disclose or not to disclose good deeds, that is the do-gooder dilemma
A new study explores how people feel about sharing their good deeds.
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Which discipline should survive the end of the world?
Five professors from across campus will advocate that their discipline is the most important to save for the future in the annual Apocalypse Debate Nov. 6.
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Satire under siege: Cornell humor expert on ‘Kimmel’ comeback
“Political leaders – of all stripes – hate two things: unfettered speech and being mocked. With Jimmy Kimmel, the administration got a chance to squelch both."
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Olin Library to hold reopening celebration Aug. 27
The celebration also features a welcome speech at 12:15 p.m. by Elaine L. Westbrooks, Carl A. Kroch University Librarian, and open houses for the new Anthropology Collaboratory and Library Map Collection.
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2025 Nexus Scholars talk about academic growth, transformation
Ten students who participated in this summer's Nexus Scholars Program share their stories..
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Dec
05
Friday
03:00 PM
EPL Read-Ahead Colloquium: Selim Berker
Goldwin Smith Hall
G64
Feb
20
Friday
03:00 AM
Discussion Club: Nomy Arpaly
Klarman Hall
G64
Feb
27
Friday
03:00 PM
Colloquium: AI and Ethics, Jen Semler (Cornell Tech)
Goldwin Smith Hall
G64
Mar
06
Friday
03:00 PM
Discussion Club: Lara Buchak
Klarman Hall
G64
Mar
20
Friday
03:00 AM
Jul
03
Friday
12:00 AM
Nov
11
Wednesday
12:00 AM
Veterans Day - Classes Held
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Ethics & Public Life
The Cornell Program on Ethics and Public Life promotes interdisciplinary learning about morally central questions concerning public policies and social, political and economic processes.