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Student experiences

Students develop Cornell-specific dating algorithm just in time for Valentine’s Day

A&S Communications

Students created an algorithm, interviewed 100 happy couples and entered survey data from students about their Cornell-specific likes and dislikes to determine perfect matches.

Edmundo Paz-Soldan
Romance studies

Let the novel speak

Cornell Research

This Cornell Research profile explores the work of Edmundo Paz-Soldán, professor of Spanish literature in the Department of Romance Studies.The story says that Paz-Soldán initially shied away from devoting his life to literature.

Neurobiology & Behavior

Study: Mosquitoes can hear up to 10 meters away

Cornell Chronicle

Mosquitoes can hear at distances that usually require eardrums, yet all they're listening with are feathery antennae with fine hairs.

Teaching innovation

Active Learning Initiative funds nine projects

Cornell Chronicle

In all, 70 faculty members will work on substantially changing the way they teach in more than 40 courses to over 4,500 students.

Alumni mentoring

Winter networking events break attendance records

A&S Communications

A new alumni gift helps students with travel and lodging expenses.

Milstein Program

Milstein program brings 'Hamilton' producer, design thinking expert to campus for public talks

A&S Communications

The program "hopes to stimulate conversation across the campus about technology, visionary thinking and education.”

Technology in teaching

Study probes effect of virtual reality on learning

Cornell Chronicle

The simulation, “Learning Moon Phases in Virtual Reality,” is part of a multi-phase research study to determine whether the compelling, immersive nature of virtual reality (VR) provides a better learning outcome than conventional hands-on activities. The study – which found no significant difference among hands-on, computer simulation or VR learning – is one of the first to look at the impacts of VR on learning.

History of art

Art history professor receives grant for global seminars

A&S Communications

Iftikhar Dadi, associate professor of history of art, has received a $238,000 grant from the Getty Foundation's Connecting Art Histories initiative for a series of research seminars. The project, “Connecting Modern Art Histories in and across Africa, South and Southeast Asia,” is a collaboration between Cornell’s Institute of Comparative Modernities (ICM), the Dhaka Art Summit in Bangladesh, and Asia Art Archives in Hong Kong. ​

Science & Technology Studies

PhD student combines passion for music with technology and sociology

A&S Communications

“I was in Arts & Sciences so I had the freedom to take courses in everything from Asian studies to physics."

Alumni

Award-winning chef continues to innovate

A&S Communications

Irene Li '15, co-founder of Boston's Mei Mei restaurant, is leading the way in the areas of ethical sourcing and fair employment practices.

Physics

Nanoscale guitar string ‘executes a complex dance’

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers have devised a way to listen to a nanoscale guitar for the first time.

American Studies Program

Law that allows president to declare national emergencies needs to be repealed and replaced

The Hill

In a recent op-ed for The Hill, Professor Glenn Altschuler, the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies and Dean of Continuing Education and Summer Session, discusses the tendency of presidents to govern by declaring national emergencies, in light of President Trump's threat to declare a national emergency to construct a wall along the U.S. southern border. 

Student funding opportunities

Travel grant helps students explore the world

Ruth Bierman Linnick '60 loved to travel, to learn and to teach, so her family and friends established the grant as a tribute to these lifelong pursuits.

Performing & Media Arts

Student teams with alumna to produce touring musical

Performing & Media Arts

What would you do if you only had 100 days left to live? That’s the central question explored in the musical "Hundred Days"; Julia Dunetz '19 is associate producer and alumna Dana M. Lerner '14 is co-producer.

Public Humanities

Mellon-funded Rural Humanities initiative launches

Cornell Chronicle

A new project will leverage Cornell’s position in central New York to reinvigorate thinking about and engagement with rural communities and landscapes.