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InSight detects gravity waves, low rumbles and devilish dust

Don Banfield ‘87, principal research scientist at the Cornell Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, is the science lead for a suite of sensors aboard InSight.

Five projects awarded 2019 digitization grants

… online collections for teaching and research. This year, the program has awarded funding to five projects representing a range of … online collections for teaching and research. This year, the program has awarded funding to five projects representing a range of …

Compound hastens sexual maturity, and death, in worms

… of earlier maturity, the worms laid 30% more eggs on the first day of egg laying, which, under some environmental …

Babies not so helpless, new study shows

… calculated the change in babies’ vocal maturity from the first to second day as reflected in the proportion of infant …

Chemist Héctor D. Abruña wins Enrico Fermi Award

The award recognizes scientists, engineers and science policymakers who have given unstintingly over their careers to advance energy science and technology.

Hyperbolic crochet ‘goes viral’

… pictures. The new edition also includes more photos. The first edition received the Euler Book Prize from the …

David Mankin, who inspired students to love classics, dies at 61

… New Jersey. “I always think of primum non nocere – that his first duty toward his students and advisees was to do no …

From vaults to virtual classes, library archives enrich teaching

… senior lecturer David Faulkner (A&S) showed his students first editions of books such as “Sense and Sensibility” and … History of Love, which Ghosh is teaching online for the first time in the spring. “I’m making a video introducing …

Finding your North Star: aligning your purpose and your paycheck

On-demand polymers may yield designer materials

Researchers at Cornell are devising a method for creating new polymers in much the same way that a jewelry maker creates a beaded necklace.

Colonial Love

… it’s not the same in eighteenth-century India or in twenty-first century United States. Love is also culturally …

Validating and Examining My LGBTQ Experience Through Academics and Social Life at Cornell

… with. While being out at Cornell may seem daunting at first, I found my adjustment to the Cornell Community to be …

Undergrad researcher explores ways to combat antibiotic resistance to cholera

… He’s also continuing his studies of Spanish, which is his first language, through Cornell’s classes for heritage …

Plato offers lessons in literacy, artistry, politics

With one small change in interpretive approach, Jill Frank breaks with tradition in her new book, “Poetic Justice: Rereading Plato’s ‘Republic.’” Taking seriously that Plato appears in none of his texts and insisting that nothing that anyone in any of the dialogues says – including Socrates – should be attributed to Plato, Frank aims to shift how Plato is read.

New book explores Alexander Kluge’s literary experiments in futurity

… futurity in German literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Now serving her third term as chair of the …