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Drawing depiction of antibiotic resistant bacteria in film.
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Physical forces affect bacteria’s toxin resistance, study finds

Cornell Chronicle

A random conversation between two Cornell researchers led to a collaboration between a chemist and an engineer.

Astronomy, Carl Sagan Institute

Looking for exoplanet life in all the right spectra

Cornell Chronicle

A Cornell senior has come up with a way to discern life on exoplanets loitering in other cosmic neighborhoods: a spectral field guide.

History

History prof. discusses history of Thanksgiving meals

Time Magazine

Postdoctoral associate of History Adrienne Bitar was featured in TIME Magazine dertialing the hisotry of vegetarian opposition to serving turkey on Thanksgiving. Bitar specializes in the study of American food and health history and culture. She is the author of "Diets and the Disease of Civilization

Astronomy

Yervant Terzian, who explored matter between stars, dies at 80

Yervant Terzian, the Tisch Distinguished Professor Emeritus in the Department of Astronomy, who studied the physical matter between stars, dedicated his career to education and chaired the department for two decades, died Nov. 25 in Ithaca. Terzian was 80.

Creative Writing

Benjamin Garcia, MFA ’11, wins National Poetry Series award

Cornell Chronicle

Garcia is a 2019 Lambda Literary fellow and has also won the 2018 Puerto Del Sol Poetry Contest.

Physics

Five faculty members elected AAAS fellows

Cornell Chronicle

Five Cornell faculty members have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the world’s largest general scientific society.

Comparative Literature

Book provides a map for reading boundary-challenging author

Cornell Chronicle

Spanish-language writer Roberto Bolaño is, at heart, “a novelist who began as a poet and never ceased wanting to be one.”

Astronomy

Looking for exoplanet life in all the right spectra

A Cornell senior has come up with a way to discern life on exoplanets: a spectral field guide.

Jewish studies

Jewish Studies Program presents reading of 'Enough to Go'

Jewish Studies Program

The Jewish Studies Program will present a staged-reading of the new-old play "Enough to Go" by former Ithaca resident Fred Peretz Cohn on Wednesday, Dec. 11 at 7:30 p.m. in Barnes Hall on the Cornell Campus. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. The public is invited, and while tickets are not required, reservations can be made at www.tinyurl.com/enough-to-go.

College Scholar Program

Alumnus turns College Scholar honors thesis into debut novel

A&S Communications

"Pricked" chronicles the adventures of 22-year-old Briar Pryce in a magical, fairy-tale world hidden within modern-day Manhattan.

Humanities

Ghosh named director of new Humanities Scholar Program

A&S Communications

Durba Ghosh, professor of history and director of the feminist, gender and sexuality studies program in the College of Arts & Sciences, has been named the director of the College’s new

History & American Studies

Study reframes the history of LGBT mental health care

Cornell Chronicle

"Clinical activists" in Philadelphia improvised new therapeutic approaches, guided by their own ethics and experiences.

Performing & Media Arts

PMA film professor releases two short films

A&S Communications

Jeff Palmer, assistant professor in the Department of Performing & Media Arts, has released two new short films that continue his mission to capture untold stories.

Alumni visits

Popular Science editor tells students to 'find your own way'

Even though Joe Brown '02 had a meandering academic journey, he said Cornell always welcomed him back.

Physics

Self-assembling system uses magnets to mimic specific binding in DNA

Cornell Chronicle

To make miniature machines that essentially build themselves, researchers took inspiration from DNA origami.