Events at Cornell this week
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Thursday, November 5, 2026
- Exhibit Opening: Stories at Stake4:30 AM – 6:00 PMMann Library 102
- Juice HACCP Certification Course7:45 AM – 5:00 PMCornell AgriTech G34 Food Research Lab
- "From the Brink" Exhibit Series8:00 AM – 6:00 PMMultiple locations across Cornell University Library
- Languages at the Brink: Threatened Languages and How We Protect Them8:00 AM – 5:00 PMKroch Library Asia Collections Exhibit Space
- Weathering the Storm: The Role of Labor in an Era of Climate Change8:00 AM – 8:00 PM
- Going to Gone: Earth's Biodiversity Loss and What We Can Do About It8:00 AM – 5:00 PMMann Library Mann Lobby
- Ancient Worlds in Modern Threads8:00 AM – 5:00 PMHuman Ecology Building (HEB) HEB Display cases (Terrace Level, Level 1 and Level 2)
- Last Call: Bird Decline and the Threat of Extinction8:00 AM – 6:00 PMMann Library Gallery, Second Floor
- Keeping Common Birds Common: Birds and Habitat at Cornell Botanic Gardens and Beyond8:00 AM – 5:00 PMMann Library Mann Lobby
- Music of the Natural World9:00 AM – 5:00 PMSidney Cox Library of Music and Dance
- Biotechnology Resource Center User Trainee Poster Symposium10:00 AM – 1:00 PMBiotechnology Building G10 and Atrium
- Balance & Stability for the Long Haul11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
- Joint S.C. Tang Macroeconomics & Labor Workshop | Hugo L'Huilier11:40 AM – 12:55 PMRockefeller Hall 103
- Econometrics Workshop: Brenda Prallon11:50 AM – 12:55 PMIves Hall 109
- Data-driven Learning and Control Seminar: Yafeng Yin (Michigan)12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
- Data Management and Sharing Plan Information Session - NSF (Virtual)12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
- Power Without Hierarchy: Relational Geopolitics, Total Defense, and International Order12:00 PM – 1:15 PMUris Hall G08Free
- Perinatal Mental Health: Supporting Your Mental and Emotional Experience12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
- Beauty and the Nation: Women, Culture, and the National Image of Vietnam 1920-194012:15 PM – 1:30 PMKahin Center
- Virtual Guided Mindfulness Meditation with Let's Meditate12:15 PM – 12:45 PMFree
- "Justices Must Be Seen to Be Legitimate”: The (Post-Reform) Legitimacy Challenge of the Taiwan Constitutional Court, 2019-202512:15 PMHughes Hall L28 (Zhu Room)
- Energy Engineering Seminar: Philip Bove (Sunnking Sustainable Solutions)12:20 PM – 1:10 PMPhillips Hall 203
- Midday Music: Hannah Soren, cello and Jack Yarbrough, piano (CU Music)12:30 PMLincoln Hall B20Free
- Data Den: Introduction to Web Scraping with BeautifulSoup2:00 PM – 3:30 PMMann Lib 102
- Introduction to Random Forests2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
- Reading with Dunya Mikhail and Lesyk Panasiuk2:00 PMGoldwin Smith Hall 258, Literatures in English Lounge
- Cornell Department of Astronomy & Space Sciences Fall 2026 Colloquium Series3:30 PM – 4:30 PMSpace Sciences Building 105
- Dr. Lei Tian Distinguished Lecture Series: Joseph Falson (Caltech)4:00 PM – 5:00 PMKimball Hall B11
- CCS Seminar: Joshua Buss (Univ. of Michigan)4:00 PM – 5:00 PMBaker Lab 119
- Athanasius Kircher: Music, Machines, and the Marvelous4:00 PM – 6:30 PMLincoln Hall 124Free
- Virtual Guided Mindfulness Meditation with the Let’s Meditate Initiative4:15 PM – 4:45 PMFree
- "The Color of Water" Keynote Talk4:30 PMGoldwin Smith Hall Lewis Auditorium (G76)
- English Conversation Hour4:30 PM – 5:30 PMStimson Hall G25
- Biomedical Engineering M.Eng. Virtual Info Session - Nov 5 4:30pm4:30 PM – 5:30 PM
- Celebrate National Chinese Takeout Day4:30 PM – 9:00 PMOkenshields
- Professional Directions: Film and TV Event Series5:00 PM – 6:00 PMSchwartz Center for Performing Arts 220Free
- Who Writes the Rules? Diplomacy, Science, and Nature at the United Nations5:30 PM – 6:30 PMAtkinson Hall 121
Friday, November 6, 2026
- Cornell Men's Ice Hockey vs Quinnipiac University12:00 AMLynah Rink
- To Be For Forbears12:00 AMBibliowicz Family Gallery
- Island Editions Conversation Series at the Gensler Family AAP NYC Center Fall 202612:00 AMGensler Family AAP NYC Center
- 2026 Cornell Food Hackathon12:00 AMStocking Hall
- America at 250: Focus on George Washington12:00 AMMichael T. Sillerman '68 Rotunda, Rare and Manuscript CollectionsFree
- 24th Annual Labor and Employment Law Roundtable12:00 AMNYC
- Rivers of Ice: Three Centuries of Glacial Science12:00 AMHirshland Exhibition Gallery, Rare and Manuscript Collections, 2B Kroch LibraryFree
- Global Careers Week12:00 AM
- Cornell Art Faculty 202612:00 AMHerbert F. Johnson Museum of Art Gold, Schaenen, Moak, and Class of 1953 Galleries, Floor 2L
- Keeping Common Birds Common: Birds and Habitat at Cornell Botanic Gardens and Beyond8:00 AM – 5:00 PMMann Library Mann Lobby
- Weathering the Storm: The Role of Labor in an Era of Climate Change8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
- Last Call: Bird Decline and the Threat of Extinction8:00 AM – 6:00 PMMann Library Gallery, Second Floor
- Languages at the Brink: Threatened Languages and How We Protect Them8:00 AM – 5:00 PMKroch Library Asia Collections Exhibit Space
- "From the Brink" Exhibit Series8:00 AM – 6:00 PMMultiple locations across Cornell University Library
- Ancient Worlds in Modern Threads8:00 AM – 5:00 PMHuman Ecology Building (HEB) HEB Display cases (Terrace Level, Level 1 and Level 2)
- Going to Gone: Earth's Biodiversity Loss and What We Can Do About It8:00 AM – 5:00 PMMann Library Mann Lobby
- Banana Palette8:00 AM – 5:00 PMMartha Van Rensselaer Hall The Gold Gallery (1250)
- Between Farm and Table: Economics, Access, and Place8:30 AM – 3:00 PMMartha Van Rensselaer Hall G151
- Music of the Natural World9:00 AM – 5:00 PMSidney Cox Library of Music and Dance
- Healing In Place With Wellness-Guided Journaling9:00 AM – 9:30 AM
- Cell Bio Journal Club10:00 AM – 11:00 AMWeill Hall 321
- Athanasius Kircher: Music, Machines, and the Marvelous10:30 AM – 12:00 PMKroch Library (Olin B2) 2B48Free
- LASSP/AEP Seminar - Joseph Falson (Caltech)10:30 AM – 11:30 AMPhysical Sciences Building 401
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