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Education

El Barrio artwork opens students' eyes to East Harlem stories

A&S Communications

For the 15 students in a new interdisciplinary class this semester, the murals common throughout East Harlem have deeper meanings than passersby might realize.

Education

Strogatz helps students find the magic in math

A&S Communications

Math, to a mathematician, is an aesthetic, creative endeavor. But for too many high school students, math has become a reviled, boring subject.It doesn’t have to be that way, as Steven Strogatz aims to show the students in his new College of Arts and Sciences course, Mathematical Explorations. The course fulfills the math distribution requirement and has attracted seniors who put off taking a math class as long as they could, as well as freshmen intrigued by the course’s title.

Archaeology

Class examines Cornell past and future

A&S Communications

“Welcome to Cornell Ruins National Park,” Adam T. Smith tells his students. “We’re lucky today. We have a cache of objects to examine discovered in the ruins of McGraw Hall.”This “Rise and Fall of ‘Civilization’” class examines traditional archaeological topics, like kingship and the origins of cities, partly by looking at our current civilization through the lens of a single site – the Cornell campus as it would look 1,000 years from now.

FIRST-YEARS

A&S alumni join in events to welcome new students

A&S Parent

LONDON — Alumni recalled snow-packed days when they transformed cookie trays into sleds and sun-filled days sailing on Cayuga Lake, while high school seniors listened carefully, during a recent admitted students reception hosted by the UK’s Cornell Alumni and Admissions Ambassador Network (CCAAAN) in London’s Soho district.

Internships

And we have lift-off

A&S Communications

Physics major helps space tourism company get off the ground.

STUDENT LIFE

Twenty Suggestions for Incoming College Freshmen

Huffington Post

English Prof. Daniel Schwarz offers his top suggestions for the new class.

RESEARCH

Do "know-it-alls" really know it all?

Time Magazine

People who consider themselves experts in a given topic are more likely to claim knowledge of made-up “facts” about that topic, a new study shows.Researchers conducted a series of experiments to assess how likely people were to believe fictions presented as fact. In one of the experiments, for example, the researchers had 100 people rate their level of knowledge for personal finance by describing their familiarity with 15 different financial terms.

PHYSICS

Like paper, graphene folds into nanoscale machines

Cornell Chronicle

Physicist combines visual arts background with ground-breaking material.

RESEARCH

Astronomers bring a new hope to find 'Tatooine' planets

Cornell Chronicle

Sibling suns – made famous in the “Star Wars” scene where Luke Skywalker gazes toward a double sunset – and the planets around them may be more common than we’ve thought, and Cornell astronomers are presenting new ideas on how to find them.

ADMISSIONS

Finding the right fit at Cornell

A&S Parent

As education reporters note each year, March and April are frenzied months for the parents of high school seniors.“I hear you,” is all I say when I’m with parents waiting out March. With some, I hold back, unsure about adding to the conversation.They are the tightly wound, and their talk is oddly anxious and hubristic: “Of course, they will accept her, how could they not?”

application season

"We are looking for students who would benefit from what this place has to offer.”

A&S Communications

Google “Ivy league admissions” and up will pop thousands of sites that list the GPA requirements, SAT scores and stellar list of activities a high school student needs to make their application stand out to admissions counselors. As admissions deadlines loom, these sites are getting more traffic than ever.

OUTREACH

Department outreach fuels passion for math

A&S Communications

For many teenagers, math is just a necessary component of earning a high school diploma. For others, though, math is a passion, a destination in itself.

ENGLISH

Woubshet finds poetry amid loss in the early era of AIDS

Cornell Chronicle

Growing up in Ethiopia in the early 1980s and coming to the United States as a young teenager in 1989, Dagmawi Woubshet witnessed unprecedented expressions of mourning and loss in both countries in response to the AIDS crisis.

PIONEERS

Two researchers awarded Department of Defense grants

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell chemists William Dichtel and Jiwoong Park have received Department of Defense Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) awards. The highly competitive program supports research teams working in more than one traditional science or engineering discipline to accelerate breakthroughs in basic research.This year, the DOD awarded 22 MURI grants totaling $149 million over the next five years.

CREATIVITY

Along with science, Cornellians produce science fiction, too

Cornell Chronicle

Next time you’re in a cocktail party discussion about science fiction, you’ll have a lot to brag about. The university has produced more than its share of notables in the field, including several mainstream names.