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Interdisciplinary

Workshop takes transdisciplinary approach to great ape communication

A&S Communications

On Oct. 20-21, Cornell will host a trans-disciplinary workshop on apes, language and communication, “The Eloquence of the Apes,” featuring renowned primatologist Sue Savage-Rumbaugh and Cornell researchers across multiple disciplines.

Physics

Octopus inspires 3-D texture morphing project

Cornell Chronicle

A group led by Rob Shepherd, assistant professor in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, is using the cephalopod as inspiration for a method to morph flat surfaces into three-dimensional ones on demand.

Fireworks over the Cornell Crescent at the football field
Homecoming

Homecoming Roundup 2017

A&S Communications

Arts & Sciences faculty, staff and students will gather for networking and celebrate discovery, writing and mathematics during weekend events.

Economics & psychology

A ‘playful’ Nobel Prize winner laid groundwork for his field at Cornell

Cornell Chronicle

Richard Thaler, professor of economics at Cornell for nearly two decades, was awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Oct. 9 for work he began at Cornell.Joining the Cornell faculty in 1978, Thaler was a young assistant professor who had decided to try to make a go of research on a new scholarly concept, behavioral economics, that married psychology and economics. He went looking for a job that would allow him to pursue it.

Jewish Studies Program

Harbingers and Echoes of the Shoah

A&S Communications

Concentration camps existed before World War II and still exist, as Andrea Pitzer will explore in her Oct. 17 lecture, “Harbingers and Echoes of the Shoah.”

Africana Studies

Munday speaker focuses on intersections of race, inequality, criminal justice

Khalil Gibran Muhammad, professor of history, race and public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School and the Suzanne Young Murray Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, will deliver this year’s Reuben A. and Cheryl Casselberry Munday Distinguished Lecture.His talk, “A Revitalized Black Public Sphere and the Future of American Democracy,” will take place at 4:30 p.m. Oct. 19 at the Africana Studies and Research Center.

Classics

Contemporary bard to present ancient Odyssey in music

A&S Communications

In the spirit of the ancient bards, Joe Goodkin will perform an original musical adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey for solo acoustic guitar and voice on Oct. 24 in Klarman Hall, KG70, at 5 pm.

Physics

Manipulating nature with X-ray lasers is topic of Oct. 18 lecture

A&S Communications

Ever since the invention of the laser more than 50 years ago, scientists have been striving to create an X-ray version. But until recently, very high power levels were needed to make an X-ray laser. Making a practical, tabletop-scale X-ray laser source required taking a new approach, as will be described by physicist Margaret Murnane in this fall’s Hans Bethe Lecture.

What Makes Us Human? Podcast

Disability and the Human Experience

his is an episode in the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast from Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences, showcasing the newest thinking from across the disciplines about what it means to be human in the twenty-first century.

Easing into Junior Year: New Year, New Me with a Clearer Path

This week, junior Emma Bryan talks about how the flexibility of the Arts and Sciences curriculum helped her discover her passion for French and reconfirm her interest in Economics, setting her up for an exciting junior year. By: Emma Bryan '19, French and Economics double major

Astronomy

Luminaries celebrate Voyager mission with panel, exhibit

A&S Communications

A weekend-long celebration remembers Cornell's central role in Voyagers 1 and 2 and in the creation of the Golden Record.

English

McCall memoir will be the focus of Oct. 23 reading

A&S Communications

Dan McCall, a beloved Cornell professor of American studies and creative writing, passed away in 2012, but his son Steven has just published his father’s memoir, “Boy on a Unicycle,” and will visit for a reading Oct. 23.

Humanities + STEM

Visualizing Science — a Caltech Internship

Cornell Research

As a math major with a concentration in computer science, one might assume that on paper, Beatrice Jin ’18, would be more inclined to pursue purely technical fields rather than the humanities. Jin, however, who hails from the suburbs of Chicago, has had a consistent passion for art and visual design in addition to math and science.

Student research

Student delegates attend Clinton Global Initiative conference

A&S Communications

Fifteen Cornell student delegates, including six from Arts & Sciences, worked on solutions to world problems in fields such as education and health care.

Classics

Student spends semester immersed in the study of Latin

A&S Communications

How many people can say they can speak Latin? Erchen “Erial” Zheng ‘18, a senior classics major with a minor in history, is part of the growing number of scholars invested in learning Latin as a living language.“I started learning Latin in high school,” Zheng said, “but I think my love for the classical world began much earlier when I was in the third grade. It started with Greek myth and then from there my interest grew bigger and bigger.”