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The "Hogwarts Effect"

This week, sophomore Yousef Anwer describes how his interdisciplinary experience at Cornell has been utterly magical... By: Yousef Anwer '19, Economics major, Law and Society minor

Physics

Group works toward devising next-gen superconductor

Cornell Chronicle

The experimental realization of ultrathin graphene – which earned two scientists from the University of Manchester, U.K., the Nobel Prize in physics in 2010 – has ushered in a new age in materials research.

Astronomy

For Saturn moon, possible 'restaurant' at bottom of the sea

Cornell Chronicle

Galactic hitchhikers take note: The restaurant at the end of the universe may be closer than we think. After probing data from NASA spacecraft Cassini’s flight through the watery plume of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus, scientists from the Southwest Research Institute, Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Lab and Cornell confirm the presence of molecular hydrogen.

Latina/o Studies

Latina/o Studies Program launches crowdfunding campaign

Arts & Sciences Communications

For 30 years, the Latina/o Studies Program (LSP) has been a hub for research and community. To celebrate the anniversary, the program has launched the “Let’s Dream Together” crowdfunding campaign to raise $20,000 in support of LSP students.

Center for the Study of Inequality

Conference explores social mobility and inequality, April 20-22

A&S Communications

As part of its ongoing effort to advance and disseminate knowledge on equality of opportunity, the Center for the Study of Inequality will host the “Social Mobility in an Unequal World: Evidence and Policy Solutions” conference April 20-22. The conference is free but RSVPs to inequality@cornell.edu are required.

Faculty honors

Four faculty elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Cornell Chronicle

Stephen Coate, María Cristina García, Suzanne Mettler and Fred Schneider will be honored at an Oct. 7 ceremony.

Science & Technology Studies

New book examines the genomics revolution

A&S Communications

Stephen Hilgartner examines how the governance and control of knowledge changed during the Human Genome Project.

Mathematics

Shapes, Floppy and Squeezable

Cornell Research

What does it mean to do research in math? According to Tara S.

Faculty honors

Baptist, Hutchinson awarded Guggenheim Fellowships

Professor of history Edward Baptist and assistant professor of English Ishion Hutchinson are Cornell’s newest recipients of Guggenheim Fellowships.

Performing & Media Arts

Playwright Paula Vogel honored for LGBT activism

Cornell Chronicle

The event coincided with the Broadway opening of Vogel’s play, “Indecent,” at the Cort Theatre.

Economics, music

Cornell, a Rich Intellectual Gift

Cornell Research

Patrick Braga ’17 would have made Ezra Cornell proud.

A&S curriculum

Students host April 19 forum on proposed new A&S curriculum

A&S Communications

Students' thoughts and opinions will be shared with members of the curriculum review committee.

Alumni visits

Alum Dan Cohen ‘05, ‘Arrival’ and ‘Stranger Things’ producer, visits April 21

A&S Communications

Dan Cohen ’05, a producer whose latest projects include the Oscar-nominated sci-fi movie “Arrival” and the hit Netflix series “Stranger Things,” will talk with students about his career and screen one of his films along with the short film that inspired another during an April 21 visit to campus as the 2017 Arts & Sciences Career Development Center’s Munschauer Speaker.

Africana studies

Africana symposium honored Locksley Edmondson

A&S Communications

Edmondson has been a major contributor to the articulation of Africana studies at Cornell.

History

Contested terrain: Historian probes Earth’s polar regions

Global Cornell

Dawn Berry is a visiting scholar in the Department of History at Cornell, and former postdoctoral fellow in foreign policy, security studies, and diplomatic history at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.How did you become interested in foreign policy relating to the Arctic and Antarctic, and why are these regions important?