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China & Asia-Pacific Studies

Faculty comment on South China Sea verdict

Arts & Sciences Communications

On July 12, a United Nations tribunal ruled on an arbitration case involving contested territory in the South China Sea. Government professors Allen Carlson and Jessica Chen Weiss, both on the faculty of the China-Asia Pacific Studies (CAPS) Program, reflected on the verdict.

Global Reach

Cornell launches new humanities collaboration in China

A&S Communications

The Cornell Summer School in Theory explored contemporary international debates in media studies, visual studies, literary studies, philosophy and contemporary art.

Campus Moves

College departments and programs now in new locations

Arts & Sciences Communications

With the opening of Klarman Hall, colleagues in departments that were spread out across campus can now collaborate more easily. 

Outreach to High School Students

A&S departments share career options with high school students

A&S Communications

“I’ve always been really interested in astronomy, so I was curious what kinds of careers there might be in the field,” said Sophia Delpapa, a high school senior from Ontario County who attended the recent 4-H Career Explorations event on campus, sponsored by the state 4-H foundation, part of Cornell Cooperative Extension.

Undergraduate Research

Undergraduates ponder ethical questions in research workshop

A&S Communications

A summer workshop helped undergrads consider the challenges of responsible research.

Neuroscience

Early career scientists named as inaugural Mong Fellows in Neurotech

A&S Communications

Researchers in the collaboration between the Colleges of Arts & Sciences and Engineering will work on technologies and new tools to reveal the inner workings of the brain.

International Linguistics Conference

Cornell hosts international linguistics conference

A&S Communications

Cornell will host the Conference in Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 15), an international meeting for researchers taking experimental approaches to the study of human speech sounds, July 13-17.The conference theme, “Speech Dynamics and Phonological Representation,” will address sounds in human language as part of a linguistic, cognitive and communicative system.

Curing Disease

Meinig Investigator sees path to disease cure in lipids

Arts & Sciences Communications

The key to curing multiple sclerosis may well lie in the mysterious signaling of lipids, a major component of cells. 

Physics

Ultrashort cell-free DNA reveals health of organ transplants

Cornell Chronicle

When cells die, whether through apoptosis or necrosis, the DNA and other molecules found in those cells don’t just disappear. They wind up in the blood stream, where degraded bits and pieces can be extracted.

Image of Titan's surface
Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Hydrogen cyanide on Titan key to possible prebiotic conditions

Cornell Chronicle

NASA’s Cassini and Huygen’s missions have provided a wealth of data about chemical elements found on Saturn’s moon Titan, and Cornell scientists have uncovered a chemical trail that suggests prebiotic conditions may exist there.

Summer Service Trip

Education key to ending sex trafficking, student says

A&S Communications

Sofia Aumann ’19 could have felt completely overwhelmed as a high school freshman when she uncovered the complicated issues behind human sex trafficking as she worked on a research project.

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Active learning class achieves higher student engagement

A&S Communications

In the class Introduction to Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity, it’s not uncommon for the professor to don colorful props as students vote electronically on which ones would make her the most attractive bird to potential mates.The point?“That got a lot of laughs, but I’m sure no one in the audience will forget about sexual selection anytime soon,” said Justin Zhu ’17, a biology major concentrating in molecular biology.

Anthropology

Classes re-create Nazca Lines on Arts Quad

Department of Anthropology

Uthara Suvrathan, a visitng Hirsch Postdoctoral Fellow in the Cornell Institute of Archaeology and Materials Studies, recently led her class (ARKEO/ANTHRO 2140, "Fantastic Frauds and Myths in Archaeology") in a Nazca Lines activity on the Arts Quad.  The Nazca Lines are ancient, gigantic (several are over 300m long) geoglyphs drawn on a desert in Peru. 

Juno Mission

Jupiter's mysteries to be revealed starting July 4

A&S Communications

On July 4, the veil over Jupiter’s mysteries will be ripped away with the arrival of NASA’s Juno mission, and Jonathan Lunine will be there to watch it happen.Like cosmic archaeologists, astronomers will use Juno’s instruments to understand what went into the icy planetesimals that Jupiter swept up after it formed.

Astronomy

Kaltenegger named inaugural recipient of Barrie Jones Award

A&S Communications

Lisa Kaltenegger, associate professor of astronomy and director of Cornell's Carl Sagan Institute, has been name the inaugural recipient of the Barrie Jones Award by The Open University (OU), United Kingdom, and the Astrobiology Society of Britain (ASB). The award will be presented in a ceremony on July 7 at the OU campus.