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Information Science

Computational tools for the humanities

Cornell Research

In academic fields from physics to genetics, researchers rely on computers for everything from data analysis to modeling. One area of scholarship that has gone largely untouched is the humanities, where today’s researchers are far more often hunched over stacks of books than scanning graphs and charts on a screen.

Psychology

Learning, memory, and the sense of smell

Cornell Research

Walk by a bakery, and you’ll smell fresh-baked bread. But would you smell it, if you’d never learned what bread was? “Not necessarily,” says Thomas A. Cleland, Psychology.

History

Historians launch Immigration Syllabus website

Cornell Chronicle

"We hope the suggested readings, primary sources, and multimedia sources will help educators and citizens in their teaching and public discussions," says historian Maria Cristina Garcia.

From the president

President Rawlings issues statement on immigration executive order

The university has created a new resource page for faculty, staff and students concerning the Jan. 27 presidential executive order on immigration. Interim President Hunter Rawlings also sent the following message to the Cornell community Jan. 29:

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Cornell library

New proposals sought for digital grants

A&S Communications

With so much research and exploration being conducted online, having material available digitally is vitally important to faculty and students.

Psychology

Memory limits give rise to open-ended language abilities

Cornell Chronicle

A hallmark of human language is our ability to produce and understand an infinite number of different sentences. This unique open-ended productivity is normally explained in terms of “structural reuse”; sentences are constructed from reusable parts such as phrases. But how languages come to be composed of reusable parts in the first place is a question that has long puzzled researchers in the language sciences

History

Historian re-examines Caribbean history in new book

A&S Communications

Ernesto Bassi says few other places in the world were as geopolitically complex as the Caribbean in the mid-18th to mid-19th century,

Music & Medieval Studies

New book takes sound studies into the cosmos

A&S Communications

“We can hear the universe” declared researchers at LIGO (the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory) announcing the first detection of a gravitational wave last year.By capturing a sonic translation of two black holes colliding more than a billion years ago, scientists had finally achieved what ancient scholars had long dreamed of: translating the “music of the spheres” into sound humans can hear.

Alumni

Cornellians honored with Oscar nods

A&S Communications

"Arrival" and "Hacksaw Ridge" feature Cornell alumni in key production and writing roles.

Curriculum

Faculty discuss curriculum changes in Arts & Sciences

Arts & Sciences Communications

… “The curriculum belongs to the faculty, 100 percent,” declared … Government … “The curriculum belongs to the faculty, 100 percent,” declared … at every university.” The forum was held to discuss curriculum reforms being explored by the College of Arts & … Faculty discuss curriculum changes in Arts & Sciences …

Society for the Humanities

Mellon grant extends collaborative seminar series

Cornell Chronicle

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has approved $1.1 million to extend the Mellon Collaborative Studies in Architecture, Urbanism and the Humanities (AUH) interdisciplinary seminar series at Cornell for four years.

Chemistry

Group uses its own 'toolset' to probe chemical responses

Cornell Chronicle

Using a novel chemical procedure developed in her lab, Yimon Aye and her group are helping to blaze a trail in the emerging field of precision medicine by targeting and modulating single proteins to achieve desired responses.

In Memoriam

Linguist Herbert L. Kufner dies at 88

Linguistics professor Herbert L. Kufner, Ph.D. ’56, died on Oct. 20, 2016, in Unterhaching, Germany. He was 88.

Physics

Uncovering new insights into quantum materials

Cornell Research

Kyle Shen, associate professor of physics, creates and investigates artificial and unconventional materials with unusual electronic and magnetic properties. His research into these new materials and their potential applications is explored in this Cornell Resarch story.