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English, Comparative Literature

The Magic of Poetry

Cornell Research

Jonathan D. Culler, the Class of 1916 Professor of English and Comparative Literature, wants to restore the magic of literary text for ordinary readers.

Mathematics

The Ordered Patterns of Chance

Cornell Research

Mathematician Lionel Levine researches the abelian sandpile—a mathmatical model that captures aspects of the real world but with simpler rules; in this Cornell Research article, Levine calls it a "toy universe."

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Milstein students visit Cornell Tech for summer updates, alumni talks

During their first summer this year at Cornell Tech, Milstein students will participate in workshops that will integrate theory, methods, technologies and applications.

Physics

Celebration marks prototype accelerator getting up to speed

Construction is complete and the first major test was a success, so a celebration was in order to mark these accomplishments of the Cornell-Brookhaven ERL Test Accelerator facility, known as CBETA. In time, it is expected to become the most energy-efficient, high-performance accelerator ever built.

Government

Einaudi program promotes nuclear freeze movement’s legacy

… Center’s  Cornell Global Perspectives  book imprint with Cornell University Press. PACS is working with Cornell … Center’s Cornell Global Perspectives book imprint with Cornell University Press. Megan DeMint is a communication …

The Arts Quad in the summer
Social sciences

Grants seed social science research, conferences

Studies exploring the effects of disadvantaged neighborhoods, a reimagined school recess and customized avatars were among a slate of faculty projects receiving grants this fall from the Cornell Center for Social Sciences (CCSS).

What Makes Us Human?

New podcast episode traces roots of educational inequalities

Inequalities institutionalized during the Civil War era remain with us today, says Noliwe Rooks, professor of Africana studies and director of American studies.

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Visualizing data through storytelling

A&S Communications

… information becomes more accessible to different audiences. Anna Feigenbaum, a writer, researcher and educator who …

English

Conan O’Brien correspondence with E.B. White surfaces

When two Cornell University Library staffers heard comedian Conan O’Brien talk in his podcast about a letter he sent to famed author E.B. White nearly 40 years ago, they had a thought: What if that note from the then-16-year-old O’Brien was among the 25,000 letters in the library’s E.B. White Collection?

Campus & Community Engagement

Learning Where You Live course empowers students

A&S Communications

“The course changed how I think about my future. It made me realize that success has many definitions as all of us live different lives.”

English

George Hutchinson’s ‘Facing the Abyss’ cited by MLA

Professor George Hutchinson has been recognized by the Modern Language Association (MLA) of America in the competition for its fourth annual Matei Calinescu Prize, with an honorable mention for his book “Facing the Abyss: American Literature and Culture in the 1940s” (Columbia University Press).

Career experiences

Students have multiple opportunities for career exploration over break

A&S Communications

Alumni offered advice at networking sessions and students tuned in virtually to gain insights related to internships and job searches.

Creative Writing

Susan Choi, MFA ’95, wins National Book Award

… for the fiction award were “Sabrina & Corina: Stories” by Kali Fajarado-Anstine, “Black Leopard, Red Wolf” by Marlon …

History

Historian and medievalist Brian Tierney dies at 97

Professor Emeritus Brian Tierney, who taught medieval history at Cornell for 33 years and was recognized as a leading authority on medieval church law and political thought, died Nov. 30 in Syracuse. He was 97.Tierney taught in the Department of History from 1959 until his retirement in 1992 as the Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies.

What Makes Us Human?

New podcast episode examines an impact of incarceration

A&S Communications

… furthers inequality and exclusion across generations,” Anna Haskins , assistant professor of sociology in the …