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Illustration in bright red of Earth and a doctor's gloved hand — Laura Chichisan/College of Arts and Sciences The New Frontier Grant-funded project “The Biopolitics of Global Health After Covid” will consider health at the world-wide scale

New Frontier Grants

$2.5M in A&S New Frontier Grants supports bold projects

5/17/2023 Cornell Chronicle

A&S faculty members will delve into questions ranging from quantum computing to foreign policy development and from heritage forensics to effects of climate change.

student digging in the woods — Patrick Shanahan Eden Kebede '25 collects a soil sample in a forest outside Ithaca.

Student research

Nexus Scholars Program expands research opportunities to 101 students

5/15/2023 A&S Communications

… This summer, 101 students in the College of Arts and Sciences … Chemistry and Chemical Biology … Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program … History … History of Art and Visual Studies … Linguistics … Literatures in English … hosted by Ithaca College. This summer, Reshma Niraula ’26 and Quinn Tonole ’24 will study the genetics and …

Extraordinary Journeys

'I am most proud of my intellectual growth at Cornell'

5/15/2023

Olivia Breitkopf

Several people stand on a grassy space looking over a river with a city on the other side — Nadir Ali Students and faculty in Cornell’s fall 2022 Design Justice Workshop and Detroit Public School juniors enrolled in the University of Michigan Architecture Preparatory Program (ArcPrep) get a view of the Detroit skyline from Belle Isle Park.

Research collaborations

Multi-college scholars think deeply about cities

5/17/2023 A&S Communications

Part of Cornell's Mellon Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities, Cornell students explored creative ways to understand urban landscapes during two cross-disciplinary courses this year.

Illustration: stack of blue grids shot through with green and red glowing lines

Quantum research

Cornell, Google first to detect key to quantum computing future

5/12/2023 Cornell Chronicle

The method, realized in theory by Prof. Eun-Ah Kim and Yuri Lensky, could protect bits of quantum information by storing them nonlocally.

Person speaks at a podium, gesturing with one hand — Roger Theise for Cornell University Misha Inniss-Thompson ’16, assistant research professor of psychology, gave the keynote address at the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives’ annual Honors Award Ceremony on May 5 in the Statler Hotel.

Student experiences

Prioritize space to dream, OADI alumna tells diverse students

5/12/2023 Cornell Chronicle

At a May 5 ceremony, Misha Inniss-Thompson ’16, assistant research professor of psychology in the College of Human Ecology urged students to prioritize their passions and interests.

Person leans on a table to write in an office set up outdoors — Per Meistrup/Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license Voters in the Thailand general election 2019

Global politics

Thai elections defy long-standing rule banning criticism of monarchy

5/11/2023 A&S Communications

A growing dissatisfaction within Thailand with the country’s conservative monarchy makes a May 14 election significant.

Humanities Scholar Program

From poetry to philosophy to politics, Humanities Scholars share research

5/11/2023 A&S Communications

The end-of-year HSP research conference May 5 featured presentations by 45 senior undergraduates.

Students standing on a staircase overlooking a waterfall

Extraordinary Journeys

Life is full of possibilities: Meet the extraordinary class of 2023

5/15/2023 A&S Communications

Read about the Cornell experiences of some of the amazing students in our graduating class.

A telescope with a big metal disk with a giant tripod of metal protruding from its rim. — B. Saxon, NRAO/AUI/NSF View of Green Bank’s 40-foot telescope from the front at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)

Astronomy

Reversible magnetic field found around a fast radio burst for the first time

5/11/2023 A&S Communications

“These new observations are another step forward in understanding the remarkable engines and the diversity of fast radio bursts.”

Book cover: The Founding of Modern States

Government

Government scholar compares founding histories of six modern states

5/10/2023 A&S Communications

Comparing Britain, the United States and France with the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and the Islamic Republic of Iran, Richard Bensel uncovers a paradox at the heart of every modern state founding.