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Creative writing

MFA graduate earns accolades for young adult novels

A&S Communications

The books tell the stories of teens who meet on the public courts of Oakland, Calif. and come together to form an improbably competitive basketball team.

Student ambassadors

The beauty of Cornell: "In the middle of nowhere but in the middle of everything"

A&S Student Ambassador

One of our Arts & Sciences student ambassadors shares her favorite spots on campus, including one you may not know about.

Open book with Arabic writing
Outreach

Teach-In at Cornell: Combatting Islamophobia through education

In response to the recent Executive Order barring U.S. entry to citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries, Cornell’s Department of Near Eastern Studies will hold a teach-in Feb. 17 in the Groos Family Atrium in Klarman Hall from 10 a.m. to noon. The event is free and the public is welcome.

Student Research

When they were undergraduate researchers

Cornell Research

Robert D. Guber ’15 studied alcoholic liver, diabetes, and obesity. Lipi Gupta ’15 worked on reducing beam emittance in the Cornell Electron Storage Ring (CESR), a 768-meter ring that is part of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source (CHESS), to produce brighter s-rays. Sang Min Han ’15 examined toadfish to create a mathematical model for vertebrate vocalization. Swati Sureka ’15 engineered nucleic acid to develop DNA materials. Teresa O.

Psychology

Chocolates and roses really do spell 'love,' researchers find

A&S Communications

“Say it with chocolate,” goes the ad – but what are you really saying? We imbue objects with all sorts of meanings, especially around the holidays. A new study by Cornell psychology researchers finds that the closer to Valentine’s Day we get, the more chocolates – and red roses – spell out “l-o-v-e.”

Physics

Gottfried receives 2016 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award

Cornell Chronicle

Kurt Gottfried, emeritus professor of physics and a recognized expert on nuclear arms control, has been awarded the 2016 Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). 

Creative Works

PMA professor produces political cabaret Feb. 19

Cornell Chronicle

With protests multiplying around the country, this is a good time to be Sara Warner, whose research area is theatre and social change. 

Sociology

Gender gap found in Ph.D. fields and in program prestige

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers found that the share of men receiving their degrees from the most prestigious doctoral programs is about 6 percent higher than the share receiving their degrees from all other programs.

History

New book charts collision of wealth and populist politics in the Gilded Age

A&S Communications

The Civil War came as a crushing blow to the moneyed elite of Boston, who had been deeply embedded in the cotton economy of the early 19th century as textile manufacturers

History

If Kushner is the man for the job, family ties shouldn't matter

The Hill

In this opinion piece in The Hill, historian Barry Strauss, contends that Trump's appointment of his son-in-law as a senior advisor has plenty of precedent.