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Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Mathematics

How do you flourish in scientific publishing? Ask a librarian

… Mathematics … From Start to Publish,” Jan. 7–8. Librarians and guest faculty members led sessions on topics including … After Hoffmann’s lecture, participants heard from a faculty panel of journal editors: Shane Henderson, director … and Anil Nerode , the Goldwin Smith Professor of Mathematics. The panelists shared thoughts on topics such as …

What Makes Us Human?

Zip Codes Matter

This is an episode from the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast's fifth season, "What Do We Know about Inequality?" from Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences, showcasing the newest thinking from across the disciplines about inequality. Featuring audio essays written and recorded by Cornell faculty, the series releases a new episode each Thursday through the fall semester.

What Makes Us Human?

Climate Refugees

This is an episode from the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast's fifth season, "What Do We Know about Inequality?" from Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences, showcasing the newest thinking from across the disciplines about inequality. Featuring audio essays written and recorded by Cornell faculty, the series releases a new episode each Thursday through the fall semester.

What Makes Us Human?

Water Rights

… individual, a corporation or a country monopolizes water, selling it for the highest price or controlling it for … a privilege—that is, a commodity that some can capture and sell—or is it a common good, a right to be enjoyed by all? …

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Pore size influences nature of complex nanostructures

Cornell Chronicle

New research by Cornell chemists could impact the assembly of sophisticated nanostructures and new materials.

English

Winners of 2017-18 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism announced

A&S Communications

The George Jean Nathan Award Committee has named John H. Muse of the University of Chicago and arts journalist Helen Shaw as winners of the 2017-18 George Jean Nathan Award for Dramatic Criticism, citing “their invigorating and perceptive theatrical analyses.”

What Makes Us Human?

Lived Experience

This is an episode from the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast's fifth season, "What Do We Know about Inequality?" from Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences, showcasing the newest thinking from across the disciplines about inequality. Featuring audio essays written and recorded by Cornell faculty, the series releases a new episode each Thursday through the fall semester.

Music

Music announces spring semester events

Cornell Chronicle

The new Cornell Center for Historical Keyboards offers chances for study, performance and recording.

English

Creative writing student recognized by literacy association

Yessica Martinez was named to the International Literacy Association’s 2019 “30 Under 30” list, which celebrates rising innovators, disruptors and visionaries in the literacy field.

History

The left is pushing Democrats to embrace their greatest president. Why that’s a good thing.

The Washington Post

Historian Lawrence Glickman writes in this Washington Post piece that "nearly a century after President Franklin D. Roosevelt began his effort to revive the American economy through government programs, Democrats are once again becoming fans of Roosevelt and his legacy."

History

Permissible war

Cornell Research

How do nations decide when to go to war? What are the rules that govern when it is permissible to resort to war under international law? This Cornell Research profile of History Professor Isabel Hull explores her research into situations when war has been deemed permissible, specifically at what history tells us—the period 1814 to 1914 and the criteria known as jus ad bellum.

What Makes Us Human?

Workplace Rankings

This is an episode from the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast's fifth season, "What Do We Know about Inequality?" from Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences, showcasing the newest thinking from across the disciplines about inequality. Featuring audio essays written and recorded by Cornell faculty, the series releases a new episode each Thursday through the fall semester.  

Physics

Next-gen particle accelerator is aim of Bright Beams work

Cornell Chronicle

New research at Cornell is helping address current challenges and develop more efficient accelerators.

What Makes Us Human?

Unequal Representation

This is an episode from the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast's fifth season, "What Do We Know about Inequality?" from Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences, showcasing the newest thinking from across the disciplines about inequality. Featuring audio essays written and recorded by Cornell faculty, the series releases a new episode each Thursday through the fall semester.

English

English professor publishes new edition of Jean Toomer’s “Cane”

The New York Times Book Review described the work as a “book for our times.”