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Inequality Research

Major grant expands Center for the Study of Inequality

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers will tackle the issues of inequality and democracy; social mobility and equality of opportunity; and immigration, race and ethnicity.

Neurobiology

Right or left? Study shows how zebrafish answer key question

Cornell Chronicle

Very little is known about the wiring of nerve cells in the brain that allow a fish, or any animal, to make fundamental choices to move to the left or to the right. A study of zebrafish larvae published Aug. 9 in the journal eLife for the first time reveals a circuit that determines the direction of a lightning-quick turn to escape a predator.

Kepler planet image
Space Exploration

Astronomers offer a new bucket list for other worlds

Cornell Chronicle

Forget Rome. Ignore Madrid. Overlook tropical islands. Cash in your frequent flier miles and book a cruise to far-flung, exotic exoplanets.

Liberal Arts

NYC institute builds community with liberal arts courses

Cornell Chronicle

The nonprofit Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (BISR), co-founded in 2012 by Ajay Chaudhary ’03, offers deep subject matter outside of traditional institutional walls, giving the local community access to liberal-arts education.

English

95th Birthday Reading to Honor Renowned Writer and Professor Emeritus James McConkey

A&S Communications

The Cornell Department of English Creative Writing Program launches the Fall 2016 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series on Thursday, September 1, 4:30pm, inRhodes-Rawlings Auditorium, Klarman Hall, with a celebration of the life and work of Goldwin Smith Professor of English Literature Emeritus James McConkey on the occasion of his 95th birthday.

Sociology

Cornellians to share breaking sociology research in Seattle

Cornell Chronicle

Forty-seven Cornell faculty and graduate students will be among the 4,600 sociologists to descend on Seattle Aug. 20-23 for the American Sociological Association’s 111th annual meeting. Nearly 600 sessions and 3,000 research paper presentations will address society’s most pressing problems.

Linguistics

Cheyenne, how meaning is coded in language

Cornell Research

Of the approximately 7,000 languages in the world, many are endangered. An endangered language is one that is at risk of losing all of its native speakers.

Near Eastern Studies

Doctoral student works to uncover birth of inequality on Cyprus

A&S Communications

The Fulbright and NSF-funded scholar will spend nine months on the island surveying fortresses and villages.

Someone in the China Summer School signing a paper
International collaborations

Summer School in Theory holds first session in Shanghai

Cornell Chronicle

Faculty from more than 40 East Asian universities attended the inaugural one-week session of the East China Normal University (ECNU)/Cornell Summer School in Theory (ECSST) in Shanghai.ECSST provides an opportunity for select humanities and arts faculty to interact and explore contemporary international debates in media, literary and visual studies; art and philosophy.

Molecular Biology & Genetics

Cornell builds bridges with Qatari 'doctors of the future'

Cornell Chronicle

The Ithaca campus and Weill Cornell Medicine-New York welcomed three special young guests recently: high school students from Qatar, visiting the United States for the first time to get a sneak peek into the world of academic medicine.