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Innovation in teaching

Study addresses low female participation in STEM classrooms

A&S Communications

Increasing class size has the largest negative impact on female participation in these fields.

Performing & Media Arts

Theatre alumna debuts as director with DC movie, ‘The Kitchen’

A&S Communications

… Andrea Berloff '95 is scheduled to be on campus for a Nov. 15 screening … Andrea Berloff ’95 hasn’t read many books on screenwriting – in fact, … up and support female filmmakers. “It is really all about buying tickets and showing up,” she said of recent movies …

Student experiences

Six A&S students work around the world at State Department offices

A&S Communications

Students worked in State Department offices as far away as Tanzania and Spain.

Astronomy

Astronomy professor receives Bruce Medal for career’s work

Cornell Chronicle

Martha P. Haynes, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Astronomy, has been awarded the 2019 Catherine Wolfe Bruce Gold Medal from the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

Physics

Cornell announces $54M from NSF for new CHESS subfacility

Cornell Chronicle

… attracts more than 1,200 users – who conduct X-ray analysis and collect data for research in materials, biomedical and … in 1980. That changed in April, with Cornell transitioning to  a new funding model  in which multiple partners will … funding model and organizational structure. For more than 30 years, the NSF has been the sole steward of CHESS, …

Africana studies

Via sport, Farred explores relation, belonging in ‘Entre Nous’

Cornell Chronicle

The little-known fact that philosopher Martin Heidegger was a fan of European football and an admirer of famed West German player Franz Beckenbauer launches Grant Farred’s latest exploration of philosophy through sport in his new book, “Entre Nous: Between the World Cup and Me.”

Physics

New accelerator sails through key test – recovering energy

Cornell Chronicle

A half-century after the idea of energy-recovering accelerators was proposed at Cornell, the university is showing that high-energy physics can also be renewable-energy physics.

Sociology

Rigged card game sheds light on perceptions of inequality

Cornell Chronicle

… of the fairness of silver spoons and regressive tax codes in an era of rapidly escalating economic and political …

Student activism

Space-themed fashion line launches student to NASA blastoff

Cornell Chronicle

When Shoshana Swell ’20 learned in March that NASA had scrubbed plans for an all-female spacewalk because it lacked women’s spacesuits, she got frustrated.

Awards

Three A&S faculty win White House early career awards

The White House has recognized four Cornell faculty members – Thomas Hartman, Jenny Kao-Kniffin, Kin Fai Mak and Rebecca Slayton – with prestigious 2019 Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). The awards were announced July 2.The award is the highest honor bestowed by the federal government to scientific and engineering professionals who are in first stages of their independent research careers and who show exceptional promise for leadership.

To understand where exoplanets are in their own evolution, astronomers can use Earth’s biological milestones as a Rosetta stone.
Astronomy

Exoplanet evolution: Astronomers expand cosmic ‘cheat sheet’

Cornell astronomers have reached into nature’s color palette from early Earth to create a cosmic “cheat sheet” for looking at distant worlds. By correlating tints and hues, researchers aim to understand where discovered exoplanets may reasonably fall along their own evolutionary spectrum.

Astronomy

Cornell to celebrate 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 July 20

A&S Communications

… two talks and a panel discussion and will be held from 2-4:30 pm in Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall. … two talks and a panel discussion and will be held from 2-4:30 pm in Call Auditorium, Kennedy Hall. The event is free …

Anthropology

Student Spotlight: Annapaola Passerini

… Annapaola Passerini is a doctoral candidate in anthropology from Sale Marasino, Italy. … of Venice, Italy for her undergraduate work, she chose to attend Cornell for the opportunity to work alongside her advisors while expanding her horizons … importance to archaeologists because, by providing the ‘order’ of events, they directly inform our understanding of …

Chemistry

New imaging method aids in water decontamination

Cornell Chronicle

The new method can image nonfluorescent catalytic reactions – reactions that don’t emit light – on nanoscale particles.

c elegans nematode
Molecular Biology & Genetics

What a transparent worm can reveal

Cornell Research

… This Cornell Research story focuses on the work of Jun "Kelly" Liu, professor of molecular biology and genetics, whose lab uses c. elegans nematodes to explore … stem cell biology and cellular reprogramming, and fundamental mechanisms involved in cell-cell signaling.  …