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Music

Chimes peal out undergrad melodies

A&S Communications

Students in the new class, Instrumentation for Composers, wrote for eight solo instruments and had their pieces performed by professional musicians on the Cornell faculty.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Abruña honored by Electrochemical Society

A&S Communications

Héctor Abruña, the Emile M. Chamot Professor of Chemistry, was named the recipient of the Allen J. Bard Medal for 2019, one of the highest honors of the Electrochemical Society.

Music

The Hill is alive with the sound of (jazz) music

A&S Communications

Two students who specialize in jazz have received recent honors for their blend of passion, performance and academics.

Academics

Arts & Sciences faculty approve new curriculum

A&S Communications

“New categories reflect areas of real faculty and student interest, including data science, global citizenship and social difference.”

Molecular Biology and Genetics

Nobel laureate to give Racker Lecture Nov. 15

Cornell Chronicle

When the tantalizing scent of chocolate chip cookies wafts by, how does your mind know what it means? Nobel laureate Richard Axel will explain in his talk, “Scents and Sensibility: Representations of the Olfactory World in the Brain,” in Cornell’s annual Ef Racker Lecture in Biology and Medicine Thursday, Nov. 15, at 8 p.m. in Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall. A reception will follow in Kennedy Atrium. The talk is free and open to the public.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Cornell joins battery research partnership

Cornell Chronicle

Chemist Geoffrey Coates will be part of the $120 million, five-year second phase of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), an interdisciplinary project aimed at realizing next-generation batteries.Coates and his team will investigate the polymerics that go into batteries.“By designing and building new polymers with molecular precision, we will enable

Alumni

Marketing career allows alumnus to explore diverse interests

A&S Communications

Mike Clifford '87 said his Cornell education taught him to question the status quo and be open to new ideas.

What Makes Us Human? Podcast

Podcast explores attachments to products and brands

A&S Communications

“Product Love,” a new episode of the “What Makes Us Human” podcast series, explores why consumers feel love for certain products or brands.

Kidney Stone Research: A Blast in Birmingham

This week, Dean Kim takes us inside his summer experience as a medical research assistant.By Dean Kim '20, Chemistry and East Asian Studies

Performing & Media Arts

“The Awakening of Spring” sheds light on chasm between youth and adults

Performing & Media Arts

Since its 1906 debut, “The Awakening of Spring,” by German playwright Frank Wedekind, has often been criticized and sometimes banned for its controversial subject matter, including sexuality, violence, and mistrust between generations.

Milstein Program

Intersection of art history and tech topic of Milstein lecture

Cornell Chronicle

C. Richard Johnson will speak about the field of computational art history and discuss preserving and authenticating the works of Vermeer and Rembrandt Friday, Nov. 9, at 5 p.m. in the Guerlac Room of A.D. White House, followed by a buffet dinner. His talk, “Studying Vermeer’s Canvases and Rembrandt’s Papers: Two Examples of Computational Art History,” is part of the Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity Speaker Series.

Mathematics

‘Beautiful’ oddity unveiled at math library

Cornell Chronicle

On Oct. 25, Cornell’s Department of Mathematics unveiled a strange, shiny object that’s made from one material, has uniform density, and always rests on the same side no matter how it’s rolled or set down.

Biological sciences

New tool gives deeper understanding of glioblastoma

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers in the lab of Charles Danko at the Baker Institute for Animal Health have developed a new tool to study genetic “switches” active in glioblastoma tumors that drive growth of the cancer. In a new paper in Nature Genetics published Oct.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Hispanic-serving institutions partner with CHESS

Cornell Chronicle

Héctor D. Abruña, the Emile M. Chamot Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, has been working to promote underrepresented minorities in the sciences at Cornell for more than 30 years.

Student Activities

Glee Club to sing its history at Nov. 3 concert

Cornell Chronicle

The Cornell University Glee Club, the university’s oldest, continuously operating student organization, will celebrate its sesquicentennial with a free concert. The group will sing pieces from different eras Nov. 3 at 7 p.m. in Sage Chapel. The event is open to the public.