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Career Advice

Alumni offer career advice to physics students

One of the pressures college students face daily is what to do after graduation, especially with the amount of options available today. The physics department hosted a Physics Career Day on October 24, which brought together successful physics alumni, graduate and undergraduate students to explore what paths are available for students with a physics degree.

Languages

Students abroad get head start with Jumpstart courses

Arts & Sciences Communications

Jumpstart courses help students going abroad feel more prepared for their adventures.

Student Outreach

125 students commit Random Hacks of Kindness

A&S Communications

More than 125 students spent last weekend in Sage and Olin Halls, brainstorming, coding and meeting with community nonprofits as they sought solutions to problems as part of the Random Hacks of Kindness event Nov. 13.Sponsored byEntrepreneurship at Cornell and Accenture, the event included 10 nonprofit partners who pitched problems to students, kicking off two days of hacking that ended in final presentations Nov. 15.

PHYSICS

The secret of Oobleck revealed at last

Cornell Chronicle

If your kids ever brought home some Oobleck from school, you had a glimpse of a long-standing scientific controversy. Next time, you can just have fun with it, knowing that the argument is over. Cornell physicists have finally explained what makes Oobleck so weird.

PSYCHOLOGY

Prairie vole research focuses on philandering, benefits of socialization

Cornell Chronicle

Study finds no matter how neglected the child, there’s still hope – at least for prairie voles. 

ENGLISH

Morgan on Harper Lee: 'a telling lesson in novel writing'

Cornell Chronicle

“Fiction can transform a particular history into art of universal significance,” author and Kappa Alpha Professor of English Robert Morgan said Nov. 19 in “History and Fiction: The Growth of an Artist – Harper Lee’s ‘Go Set A Watchman’,” a talk in Goldwin Smith Hall.

CLASSICS

Exposing new audiences to a real Greek tragedy

A&S Communications

Classics students add modern twists to Euripedes play.

Faculty Books

New book spotlights paradoxes of female warrior role

Cornell Chronicle

A history professor uncovers two versions of a story about a famed Norse figure.

Anthropology

New book explores how objects support political power

Cornell Chronicle

From Bronze Age traditions of mortuary ritual and divination to current controversies over flag pins and Predator drones, a new book by anthropology professor Adam Smith sheds light on how material goods authorize and defend political order.