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Undergrads from across country visit for summer research

… Undergrads from across country visit for summer research …

Professor Jesse Goldberg wins NIH 'new innovator' award

Three young Cornell researchers have won National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director’s New Innovator Awards. Part of the NIH’s High-Risk, High-Reward Research Program, the awards provide up to $1.5 million over five years for innovative, high-impact projects.

Cornell Synchrotron Begins Two-Month X-Ray Run

From last Wednesday to Dec. 8, the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), also known affectionately as the “world’s coolest microscope” by CHESS Director Prof. Joel Brock, applied and engineering physics, will be holding a scheduled x-ray run for users around the nation.

Fall Break At (or Away from) Cornell

… and independent shops we would have otherwise liked to visit were closed. Regardless, we still had a great time …

Lecture to launch Cornell access to genocide archive

The USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archives is an unparalleled resource of some 53,000 individual testimonies of survivors of the Nazi Holocaust, the Rwandan genocide, the Nanjing massacre and the Armenian genocide. Cornell will mark the launch of its access to the archive Tuesday, Nov. 3, with a talk by noted New Yorker columnist and Rwandan genocide expert Philip Gourevitch ’86.

Professor: Amazon’s review lawsuit fails to address real issue

Alum’s adventures lead to Met costume collection

… to be willing to take risks, during a recent campus visit. … Metropolitan Museum of Art. Chilton, a government major, visited with students Oct. 2 as a part of a Career …

Contrapunkt concert showcases student composers

… their work or hear from doctoral composition students or visiting musicians.  This piece also appeared in the Cornell …

Peter Lepage wins prestigious Sakurai Prize in physics

Physics professor Peter Lepage wins 2016 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Particle Physics.

One year after Nepal earthquake, anthropology researchers reflect

This piece by David H. Holmberg and Kathryn S. March, both professors of anthropology, reflects on the Nepali earthquakes and their impact in north central Nepal.

A&S meets its $225M campaign goal

Thanks to generous alumni, the College of Arts & Sciences exceeded its Cornell NOW Campaign goals to support humanities, students and new faculty.

Misreading Frost, rethinking the lyric in new poetry books

American poet Robert Frost was not above toying with his friends, or his readers. And one of his best-known works may be his grandest joke of all, as detailed in a new book by David Orr, “The Road Not Taken: Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong” (Penguin).

Physicist's experiments resolve nature of neutrinos

As a graduate student Peter Wittich, associate professor of physics, worked at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory (SNO), located in an active nickel mine in Ontario, Canada. The observatory is deep underground to block out background radiation from other particles.

Funds support projects studying hope, optimism

An interdisciplinary collaboration between Cornell University and the University of Notre Dame has awarded nearly $2 million to 18 projects in five countries to examine the theoretical, empirical and practical dimensions of hope and optimism.

Education innovation director announced

The former dean for A&S is Cornell’s new education innovation director.