Hear faculty explain gravitational waves and ponder this year's election mayhem — while connecting with old friends and making new Cornell memories — at Reunion 2016.
… Apes: a Trans-Disciplinary Workshop on Apes, Language and Communication,” held Oct. 20-21 at Cornell and featuring … Panbanisha, a bonobo, uses lexigrams on the keyboard to communicate. Note the specific use of "yes" as an … Workshop explores ape and human communication …
Patrick Shanahan
From left, seniors Jesse Kapstad ‘24, Aja'nae Hall-Callaway ‘24 and Abhyuday Atal ’24 have wildly different interests, but all took advantage of numerous opportunities at Cornell.
White guests favor Airbnb properties with white hosts, but are more inclined to rent from Black or Asian hosts if they see featured reviews from previous white guests, Cornell research finds.
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Men gather on a street corner in Delhi. Researching delayed age of marriage for men in India, sociologist Alaka Basu said that young, unmarried, unemployed men are poised to cause or be recruited to cause social and political trouble.
… former professor of global development and currently a visiting scholar in sociology in the College of Arts and …
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Members of the Cornell Astronomical Society gave tours of Fuertes Observatory to the public, who were allowed to peer through the telescope during an October 14 celebration of its 100th birthday.
… Fuertes Observatory and its Friday night open houses, where visitors can marvel at the starry sky through “Irv,” the … were bright spots in a dark pandemic freshman year for Gillis Lowry ’24. “When everything else was bleak, I … the university to build and equip an early observatory for his students. That first building was a small wooden …
… medal, one of the highest honors in the field, in 1998 for his work in statistical mechanics. He joined the Cornell … superconductivity. Colleagues and students recognized Widom for his excellence as a teacher, both at the introductory … postdoctoral researchers, department colleagues and visiting researchers to Saturday pizza lunches at Ithaca’s …
Simon Wheeler
Milstein seniors gathered for a reception and dinner with faculty, staff and other mentors on May 4.
… around the world thinking about death twice as often as before. … around the world thinking about death twice as often as before, according to new Cornell research. Pandemic politics, … professor at Tel-Aviv University and Israel Institute Visiting Professor in the Department of Government in the …
