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Four head shots of four writers, arranged in a square — Provided Clockwise from top left: Aisha Abdel Gawad, Andrew Boryga, Amanda Moore, and C. Michelle Lindley

Creative Writing Program

Freund Prize winners to read Sept. 26

9/12/2024 A&S Communications

The work of the four winning writers – Andrew Boryga, Aisha Abdel Gawad, C. Michelle Lindley and Amanda Moore – spans a wide range of forms and topics.

Astronomy

Scientist Britney Schmidt wins Blavatnik Award

9/12/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Schmidt received the award for “advancing climate science and planetary habitability studies through groundbreaking research on ice-ocean interactions and innovative exploration of Earth’s polar regions and icy planetary bodies.”

Person writing on a dry-erase board with a window in the background — Chris Kitchen Neil Cholli often goes to the white board in his Uris Hall office to "think things through" while analyzing data on social mobility

Economics

Klarman Fellow to study consequences of the social safety net

9/12/2024 A&S Communications

Neil Cholli, Klarman Postdoctoral Fellow in economics, has received a grant from the Washington Center for Equitable Growth to study how inequality affects economic growth and well-being in the U.S.

yello triangles with holes punched in them, all conntected, on a blue background — Provided The kirigami robot is a hexagonal tiling composed of approximately 100 silicon dioxide panels that are connected through more than 200 actuating hinges.

Physics

Microscale kirigami robot folds into 3D shapes and crawls

9/11/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Researchers created a robot less than 1 millimeter in size that is printed as a 2D hexagonal “metasheet” but, with a jolt of electricity, morphs into preprogrammed 3D shapes and crawls.

Detail of a woven cloth showing figures dressed in red and yellow — Jason Koski/Cornell University Detail of a Burmese cloth

Language study

Language ‘Sustainability through Collaboration’ Conference at Cornell

9/11/2024 A&S Communications

Cornell, the only institution offering regular multilevel instruction in all six of the major Southeast Asian languages – Burmese, Indonesian, Khmer, Filipino (Tagalog), Thai and Vietnamese – will host a conference on the teaching of these languages on Sept. 19-21.

Stone building on a college campus, seen from across a green lawn

History

Cornell history scholars in residence at Institute for Advanced Study

9/10/2024 A&S Communications

Mara Yue Du, associate professor of history; Durba Ghosh, professor of history; and Rachel Weil, professor of history are pursuing research projects at the IAS campus in Princeton, New Jersey.

Physics

Robert Pohl, innovator in condensed matter physics, dies at 94

9/9/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Robert (Bobby) Pohl, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Physics Emeritus in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Aug. 30 in Göttingen, Germany. He was 94.

Creative Writing Program

‘Accomplished’ poet and essayist to kick off 2024 Zalaznick Reading Series

9/9/2024 A&S Communications

Elisa Gabbert "has managed to create a life out of reading books and meeting her would be absolutely eye-opening for our students.”

Sevral people, some in colorful traditional dress, stand together in an auditorium — Provided Delegates to the International Congress of World Council of Comparative Education Societies

International education

Cornell hosts major international meeting on education

9/9/2024 A&S Communications

The global conference, held in July, received 1,150 submissions from scholars and practitioners from 112 countries, representing five continents.

cooling towers from power plant — jplenio from Pixabay

Milstein Program in Technology & Humanity

Panelists to examine crypto mining impacts

9/5/2024 A&S Communications

Bitcoin mining consumes 2.3% of all U.S. electrical demand.

Africana Studies

Prominent American scholar to visit campus September 13

9/5/2024 Cornell Chronicle

Dr. Eddie Glaude, Jr., New York Times bestselling author, political commentator and academic scholar, will deliver a keynote discussion at 6:00 p.m. in the Alice Statler Auditorium on September 13, 2024.