In 1989, W.E. Moerner—a Cornell University graduate and current professor at Stanford University—discovered a method that allowed researchers to see single molecules for the first time. It was a breakthrough that opened doors for the development of an entirely new technique that would impact scientific research across disciplines, and one that earned Moerner, as well as fellow Cornell alumnus Eric Betzig (Howard Hughes Medical Institute), a Nobel Prize in 2014.
Allen Tyrone Porterie hopes to cast more light on the theater stage. The issue in question is homophobia as it pertains to gay black men in the theater. “This research relates closely to me, and it is also a very important issue,” says Porterie in this Cornell Research story.
J. Ellen Gainor, professor and director of undergraduate professor in Cornell’s Department of Performing and Media Arts, has won the Ellen Stewart Award for Career Achievement in Academic Theatre. The Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) presented the award at a ceremony in Las Vegas on August 3.
o honor Cassini’s achievements and Cornell’s research role, the Department of Astronomy will hold a community farewell celebration Sept. 15 in 105 Space Sciences Building.
Slavery in West Africa has an ancient lineage dating to biblical times. Sandra Greene’s new book, “Slave Owners of West Africa: Decision Making in the Age of Abolition,” explores the lives of three prominent West African slave owners during the age of abolition in the 19th century.
Sarah Kreps, associate professor of government, writes in this Washington Post op-ed that U.S. drone strikes raise legal questions about international and domestic law, and suggests without Congressional intervention, the “drone war on terrorism may become a war without end”.
Russell Rickford, associate professor of history, was awarded the 2016 Hooks National Book award for his book “We Are an African People: Independent Education, Black Power, and the Radical Imagination.”
The National Science Foundation awarded Cornell $9 million over five years to establish a neurotechnology hub, dedicated to developing new technologies for imagine the brain, then disseminating them to the wider neuroscience community.
Cornell University President Martha E. Pollack sent the following letter to President Donald Trump Aug. 31 to express her “deepest concerns” about Trump’s plans to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
“How do we reconcile stable truth with multiple understandings of truth?” Bruce Lewenstein, professor of science communication, posed that question during an academic symposium, “Universities and the Search for Truth,” held Aug. 24 in Bailey Hall. The event was part of the celebration of Martha E. Pollack’s inauguration as Cornell’s 14th president.
In a new opinion piece in a major publication, Morten Christiansen, professor of psychology, describes how the study of language has fragmented into many highly-specialized areas of study that tend not to talk to each other. He calls for a new era of integration in the paper, published July 31 in Nature Human Behaviour.
Martha E. Pollack plumbed the depths of Cornell history and spoke to current times in her inaugural address Aug. 25, following her installation as the university’s 14th president.Quoting a speech written during the dark days of World War II by Cornell historian Carl Becker, Pollack said there is just as much need today for universities to “maintain and promote the humane and rational values” that preserve democratic society.
Anthropology’s new Global Gateways course sequence helps students take advantage of off-campus opportunities, from engaged learning programs to study abroad.
When Saurabh Mehta started working as a physician in India, he concentrated on treating sick patients. Now he takes a broader approach to such infectious diseases as tuberculosis and HIV.
Whether ancient zoographers’ views were shaped by scientific study or by casual encounters with animals in nature will be explored in a conference Sept. 8-10 at Cornell, “Zoographein – Depicting and Describing Animals in Greece, Rome, and Beyond.”
The Department of Performing and Media Arts (PMA) celebrates the reopening of Schwartz Plaza, Aug. 26 at noon in front of the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.
Since its inception in 2010, the Grants Program for Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences has helped to digitize items in Cornell’s collections, from punk music flyers to historic glacial images of Alaska and Greenland to
On the eve of fall semester classes starting, Cornellians spied the sky – with special safety glasses – to view the partial solar eclipse Aug. 21 over Ithaca.
Poet and fiction writer Ron Rash kicks off the Fall 2017 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series on Thursday, Sept. 7, 4:30 p.m., at the Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium in Cornell’s Klarman Hall. All events in the Reading Series are free and open to the public.
After spending a year helping human trafficking victims in Mumbai, India, alum Katharine Poor ‘16 is headed to Texas to work for an organization that aids refugees and undocumented immigrants.
Faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences are exploring questions about recent events in their research and scholarship, and students have the opportunity to engage with their expertise through numerous courses this Fall relevant to our current national climate.
Cornell Botanic Gardens opens its annual Fall Lecture Series with award-winning poet Ishion Hutchinson on Wednesday, August 30, at 5:30 p.m. in Call Auditorium, followed by a garden party at Cornell Botanic Gardens.
Under sunny skies on Saturday, Aug. 19, incoming first-year students, transfer students, and their families gathered on the Arts Quad for a convocation ceremony.
What might cause a person to choose a doughnut for breakfast instead of a bowl of oatmeal?This piece in the San Francisco Chronicle, explores reserach into temptation conducted by Melissa Ferguson, Cornell professor of psychology, and Paul Stillman, a postdoctoral researcher in the Center for Cognitive and Brain Sciences at The Ohio State University.
Fourteen Cornell students and recent alumni are setting out this fall for destinations around the world, thanks to grants from the Fulbright U.S. Student Program.
In this Washington Post opinion piece, Jamila Michener, assistant professor of government, writes about her research, which shows that people on Medicaid often feel powerless and therefore disengage in politics.
For the past two years, Meera Kattapuram ’17 has been conducting research on infectious diseases and micronutrients in a Cornell lab, focusing especially on the role they play in the health of mothers and young children. This summer, she got a chance to see her research in action in an Ecuadoran hospital.
Yimon Aye, a Howard Milstein faculty fellow and assistant professor of chemistry and chemical biology, has been honored by the Eastern New York Section of the American Chemical Society as the 2017 Buck-Whitney Award winner. Aye has been invited to give a talk at the awards ceremony Nov. 15 in Troy, N.Y.
