Open House 2026

Welcome! This page provides a central resource for you to learn more about our department, Cornell, and Ithaca. You will also find a schedule of our virtual open house events.

We are delighted to have you visit our graduate program. Our faculty and graduate students take a very interdisciplinary approach to linguistics, representing linguistic theory applied to a broad range of linguistic evidence. This includes work with corpora, computational models, experimental methods, fieldwork, and language documentation. In the presentations and conversations linked below, we hope you will get a sense of who we are and what we do. If you have any questions, or need any further information, please don't hesitate to ask.

Sarah Murray, Director of Graduate Studies

sarah.murray@cornell.edu

All times in EDT

Our Labs

• Experimental Linguistics Lab - Helena Aparicio
• Phonetics Lab - Sam Tilsen
• Phonetics Lab - Nasal Airflow Machine

We've created video intros to give you a snapshot of some of our research questions:

• Marten van Schijndel - computational linguistics and psycholinguistics
• Miloje Despic  - theoretical syntax and connection to morphology and semantics

Learn more about our faculty here.

Glorious to View - a breathtakingly beautiful introduction to Cornell

January Snowfall - take a look at the Cornell campus in winter

Cornell Live View - take a peak at the Cornell Campus happening live

All About Birds - Cornell's Lab of Ornithology has live streaming of bird feeders near their labs

You Belong - view Cornell's information about joining the Cornell community

New to Ithaca - a short guide to the city of Ithaca, provided by Cornell

Visit Ithaca - a guide to Ithaca by the Tompkins County Visitors Bureau