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Linguistics

Team measures effects of sentence structure in the brain

4/19/2017 Cornell Chronicle

When we learn to read, we say one word at a time. But how does the brain actually put words together when we read full sentences?

Physics

Spring Hans Bethe Lecture to explore 'Dark Universe'

4/18/2017 Cornell Chronicle

In this spring’s Hans Bethe Lecture at Cornell, physicist Joshua Frieman will introduce the Dark Universe, give an overview of what we have learned about it, and describe new experiments and observatories that aim to illuminate its enigmas.

Society for the Humanities

Mellon president proposes humanities tackle slavery

4/18/2017 Cornell Chronicle

“When the world turns to the normally bodacious problems we call ‘grave challenges,’ shouldn’t the perspectives of humanists and artists be included to enhance what is known and how it is known?”

Interdisciplinary

Conference will explore bodies and conversion

4/18/2017 Cornell Chronicle

“Transforming Bodies,” an interdisciplinary conference April 21-22, will explore the centrality of bodies to concepts and practices of conversion in the early modern world.

The "Hogwarts Effect"

This week, sophomore Yousef Anwer describes how his interdisciplinary experience at Cornell has been utterly magical... By: Yousef Anwer '19, Economics major, Law and Society minor

Astronomy

For Saturn moon, possible 'restaurant' at bottom of the sea

4/14/2017 Cornell Chronicle

Galactic hitchhikers take note: The restaurant at the end of the universe may be closer than we think. After probing data from NASA spacecraft Cassini’s flight through the watery plume of Saturn’s icy moon Enceladus, scientists from the Southwest Research Institute, Johns Hopkins’ Applied Physics Lab and Cornell confirm the presence of molecular hydrogen.

Physics

Group works toward devising next-gen superconductor

4/14/2017 Cornell Chronicle

The experimental realization of ultrathin graphene – which earned two scientists from the University of Manchester, U.K., the Nobel Prize in physics in 2010 – has ushered in a new age in materials research.

Latina/o Studies

Latina/o Studies Program launches crowdfunding campaign

4/13/2017 Arts & Sciences Communications

For 30 years, the Latina/o Studies Program (LSP) has been a hub for research and community. To celebrate the anniversary, the program has launched the “Let’s Dream Together” crowdfunding campaign to raise $20,000 in support of LSP students.

Center for the Study of Inequality

Conference explores social mobility and inequality, April 20-22

4/13/2017 A&S Communications

As part of its ongoing effort to advance and disseminate knowledge on equality of opportunity, the Center for the Study of Inequality will host the “Social Mobility in an Unequal World: Evidence and Policy Solutions” conference April 20-22. The conference is free but RSVPs to inequality@cornell.edu are required.

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