Good morning, Ithaca.

The Cornell Lab of Ornithology will host Ithaca’s biggest bird party on Saturday, Sept.

12 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at 159 Sapsucker Woods Road — a special bird walk starts at 8:30 a.m. with the Cayuga Bird Club.

At the Johnson Museum, 'Checán Stereo' shows ancient Moche ceramics wearing headphones (playing a 1974 recording of Muchik) by Peruvian artist Fernando Huanchaco Gutierrez.

The exhibition runs through Feb. 7.

Emma Robinson, a Cornell staff writer, curated Solar Flare, a weekly playlist to boost students' academic comebacks this fall.

The playlist features hits by Kanye West, Taylor Swift & Drake and offers a mix of motivation for class in Ithaca.

A Cornell senior has proposed more relaxed clubs to help students balance strong academics—she suggests groups for watching sports, making pottery, and casual debates could ease the competitive pressure and build community on campus.

Cornell and four other universities were granted approval to appeal a judge’s decision on Aug.

24 that certified a roughly 200,000-student class in a financial aid antitrust suit + attorneys say the plaintiffs’ regression analysis likely exaggerates the class’s economic harm.

On Aug. 31, Ithaca College dean Steve TenEyck announced the Theatre Administration program will end for new students—current enrollees can still graduate with a Bachelor of Science.

The program will merge into Creative Industries to broaden arts and entrepreneurial options, leaving some students upset.

Lindy Elkins-Tanton, principal investigator for NASA's Psyche Mission, will deliver the Terzian Lecture on Sept.

11 at 7 p.m. in Rockefeller Hall's Schwartz Auditorium at Cornell, where she will discuss the mission to study the metal-rich asteroid Psyche and share plans for future discoveries.

Cornell ILR professors presented a report on Tompkins County’s minimum wage study last Thursday, noting that nearly half of wage earners earn below a living wage.

The ILR Ithaca Co-Lab will present findings tomorrow to the Housing and Economic Development Committee (and on Sept. 15 to the Legislature).

Bipartisan senators introduced the Fisheries Science Modernization Act this month; the law will require NOAA to use eDNA techniques developed by Cornell’s David Lodge to improve fish stock surveys and lower costs for both commercial and recreational fishers, with backing from industry and environmental groups.

A crowd gathered near Salt Point Natural Area on Friday to urge Gov. Kathy Hochul to sign the Responsible Data Center Development Act, which would expand data center regulations beyond the current executive order & require greater public input and renewable energy use.

Lawmakers passed the bill in June and Hochul has until Dec. 31 to act.

New York law allows drivers to flash headlights to warn of hidden police speed traps, where court rulings in 1994 & 2009 confirmed that high beams do not count as dazzling lights.

On Sunday, Cornell hosted Pittsburgh in Ithaca — the team led 1-0 at halftime before Pittsburgh scored twice in the second half; Cornell will face Colgate on Thursday at 6 p.m.