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Neurobiology and Behavior

Colony density, not hormones, triggers honeybee 'puberty'

A&S Communications

Honeybees, it seems, do not enter “puberty” because of chemical signals like hormones.

English

A Natural Storyteller Talks about His Art

Cornell Research

Robert R.Morgan, professor of English, spoke about how writing and storytelling took over his life.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Chemistry's Coates elected to National Academy of Sciences

Cornell Chronicle

Geoffrey W. Coates, the Tisch University Professor in the Department of Chemistry & Chemical Biology, is one of 84 new members elected to the National Academy of Sciences, the academy announced May 2.

Government

Power in World Politics

Cornell Research

For Peter J. Katzenstein, Government, the events that led to the financial crisis caused him to look again at important aspects in world politics.

Government

Students take sides in International Criminal Court simulation

Einaudi Center

Role-playing game lets participants into hearts and minds of people facing conflict.

Classics

Doctoral student receives prize for archaeological research

A&S Communications

Liana Brent, a PhD candidate in Classics, has been honored with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation Pre-Doctoral Rome Prize at the American Academy in Rome for her project, “Corporeal Connections: Tomb Disturbance, Reuse, and Violation in Roman Italy.”

Entrepreneurship

A&S students win Big Idea Competition with brain trainer, finance course

A&S Communications

Big Idea finalists were chosen from a pool of 85 entries.

Awards & Honors

Einaudi Center announces first group of dissertation program awardees

Einaudi Center

Twelve Cornell graduate students have been selected for the Einaudi-SSRC Dissertation Proposal Development Program (DPDP), the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies announced.

Performing & Media Arts

Student-made films to screen at Schwartz Center

A&S Communications

From stories of budding romances to a vampire huntress out for revenge, the Department of Performing and Media Arts will screen films written and directed by students from Advanced Filmmaking (PMA 4585) and photographed by students from Cinematography (PMA 4420).The free screenings will take place at 7 p.m. May 15 in the Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts.

Community outreach

Undergrads share lab know-how with high school students

A&S Communications

In her lab in the basement of Uris Hall, Lindsay Rait ’17, experiments with rats as she studies the role of the brain’s hippocampus in contextual memory. One day a week, she welcomes Lehman Alternative Community School junior Mohammed Williams into the lab, where he soaks up information about her research methods and also explores whether a career in research might be the right pathway for him.