Three students and a recent graduate have won national scholarships that will prepare them for future global leadership and careers in STEM and public service.
Scientists were surprised when a NASA satellite detected that lower- and higher-energy X-rays were polarized differently, with electromagnetic fields oriented at right angles to each other.
Ideology in China is itself malleable, rather than a rigid cage that determines policy, government professor Jessica Chen Weiss writes in a New York Times opinion.
A&S physicist Michelle Wang is among four Cornell faculty who were elected in recognition of their distinguished and continuing achievements in research.
These awards include funding for a conference, a superdepartment grant supporting collaboration in psychology, and 17 grants that will jump-start research across campus.
In a Washington Post op-ed, Prof. Tamika Nunley says judges shouldn't draw on laws addressing slave ownership to adjudicate legal questions involving human embryos.
“I’m excited that we can use this tool now and apply it to this large class of really fascinating superconductors, which are a rich playground in condensed matter physics for realizing extraordinary superconducting phenomena.”
The U.S. Senate is set to vote today on a measure that could allow the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) to be added to the U.S. Constitution, a century after its introduction.
The United States will deploy nuclear-armed submarines to South Korea for the first time in 40 years — part of a new agreement, signed Wednesday, and signaling Washington's commitment to defend Seoul against nuclear threats from North Korea.
I could yell, celebrate, and parade around campus with the rest of the crowd, because, in that moment, I realized that I was one of them: I was a Cornell student.
Hannah Cole, Ph.D. '20, has been awarded this year’s Bernheimer Prize for her dissertation, “A Thorny Way of Thinking: Botanical Afterlives of Caribbean Plantation Slavery.”
May 2, MacArthur Fellow P. Gabrielle Foreman will give a talk, “Why Didn’t We Know?!: The Forgotten History of the Colored Conventions and 19th-Century Black Political Organizing,” on the history of 19th century Black activism.
Surveys of happiness and life satisfaction overstate the importance of psychological traits, but a methodological change – simply asking someone how they’re doing – enables a fairer comparison.
Researchers found that people today work substantially less than they did generations ago because of virtually unlimited cheap entertainment increasingly at their fingertips.
In his new book, “Stay Cool: Why Dark Comedy Matters in the Fight Against Climate Change,” Aaron Sachs demonstrates how laughter can give strength even when things seem most hopeless.
Students trekked to Cuttyhunk Island during spring break to clean up traps and other fishing gear that had been abandoned, lost or otherwise discarded.
It is within these halls, these classrooms, where I feel that I am benefitting from centuries of critical thought, deep questions and explorations into finding meaning in the human experience.
Open now through June 11, “Wonder and Wakefulness: The Nature of Pliny the Elder” marks the 2,000th anniversary of the birth of the celebrated Roman author, natural philosopher and statesman.
The Society for the Humanities' year of “Repair” concludes with the ’s annual Fellows’ research conference April 27 and 28, highlighting the work of 16 scholars.
A trio of short films showing the pleasures – and perils – of rural life for LGBTQ+ people will show April 26 as part of the Rural Humanities Initiative in the College of Arts and Sciences.
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Schmidt was recognized for contributions to climate science, following the recent publication of surprise results about the melting of the imperiled Thwaites Glacier in West Antarctica.
Ajay Banga, expected to become World Bank president, could push the bank to tackle climate change more aggressively in three ways, but that each approach carries risk, says professor Richard T. Clark.
Two Arts and Sciences professors are among the 13 Cornell faculty members receiving Community-Engaged Practice and Innovation Awards from the David M. Einhorn Center for Community Engagement.
