Good morning, Ithaca.

Eastlake Recreation Center will host a pickleball open house tonight where residents can try the new courts, learn the court-reserve system, and join free-play games (5 p.m. to 9 p.m.; black-light glow begins at 8 p.m.).

Ithaca band Noon Fifteen released their new album Finish What You Started and celebrated with a show at Liquid State Brewing Company's Barrel Room on Oct.

16; the 10-track record, recorded over eight years, uses horror themes to explore fear, anxiety, and political ideas.

Cornell researchers reported in Nature Physics on Oct.

30 that experiments on uranium ditelluride showed two coexisting flavors of superconductivity under extreme cold, pressure, and high magnetic fields, making it a leading candidate for a topological superconductor (potentially useful for future quantum computing).

Ithaca College's six-member student hemp research lab in the environmental science department is testing hempcrete insulation, handmade paper, cloning techniques, and food uses to explore sustainability and reduce stigma.

The lab will be offered again in Spring 2027 for one to three credits and welcomes students with any experience.

Cornell doctoral candidate Ariel Goodwin won the 2026 INFORMS Optimization Society Student Paper Prize for their paper (Stochastic and Incremental Subgradient Methods for Convex Optimization on Hadamard Spaces) and receives a $3,000 award.

Goodwin will present the work at a special session during the INFORMS Annual Meeting, Nov. 1-4, in San Francisco.

Nearly 450 students met leaders from 20 startups at Cornell's first Startup Recruitment & Networking Expo on Oct.

20 in the Computing and Information Science Building, where companies in robotics, defense, health tech, and food connected with potential interns and hires.

Namgyal Monastery plans a 4,809 sqft private residence on the eastern side of its South Hill property, with a prayer room, private suites, and energy-efficient systems; the Town of Ithaca Planning Board approved the site plan unanimously after reviewing the project this month (design by STREAM Collaborative).

Four Big Red hockey games take place this Halloweekend at Lynah Rink as the men open the season with two nonconference games against Sacred Heart and the women host Union (Friday) and RPI (Saturday) with 3 p.m. starts.

Saturday the women will honor members of the 1975–76 Ivy League championship team with a 50-year recognition and banner unveiling; all games will stream on ESPN+ and tickets are available at the Cornell Athletics ticket office.

No. 15 Cornell men's hockey opens its regular season at Lynah Rink with a 7 p.m. game on Oct.

30 and another at 7 p.m. today against Sacred Heart; transfer Mathis Rousseau will start in goal and the roster is roughly 61% underclassmen expected to contribute.

Cornell women's hockey played Union at Lynah Rink at 3 p.m. on Friday, Oct.

30 and will face Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today at 3 p.m. during alumni weekend celebrating the 50th anniversary of the 1976 Ivy title; senior goalie Annelies Bergmann can break program records for career wins and shutouts.

Ithaca lost to Horace Greeley and Chenango Forks fell to Oneida on Friday, Oct.

30 at BU Lane-Starke Tennis Center, ending both teams' state runs and advancing Horace Greeley and Oneida to the Final Four at the USTA National Tennis Center on Nov. 6.

Union stunned No. 12 Cornell 5-4 in overtime Friday at Lynah Rink when Maddie Leaney buried the winner after a blocked shot, handing Cornell its first ECAC loss.

Cornell will host Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today with puck drop at 3 p.m. at Lynah.

Cornell will visit Princeton at noon to play an Ivy League football game at Princeton (Princeton is 2-0 at home this season); Cornell lost to Brown in overtime last week and coach Dan Swanstrom said the team had a strong week of preparation.