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How our current times are changing the curriculum

Professors throughout A&S are discussing the impacts of the pandemic and campaigns for racial justice in classes this fall.

Can I Even Do That?

Ivan Bazarov, who uses the Cornell Electron Storage Ring to manipulate bright particle beams, pushes boundaries to make new physics discoveries.

Student Spotlight: Emily Donald

Emily Donald is a doctoral student in history from Brisbane, Australia studying modern southeast Asian history; feminist, gender, and sexuality studies; and queer history. After attending the University of Queensland as an undergraduate, she chose to pursue further study at Cornell due to its scholars, library collections, and commitment to graduate student learning. What is your area of research and why is it important?

‘Already Authoritarian?’ webinar focuses on violence, policing and democracy

Kreps: Social media helping to undermine democracy

In international relations, democracies including the United States have long claimed to have several advantages over authoritarian regimes – such as sound governance and effectiveness in wartime – based on the open marketplace of ideas and freedom of expression. And what could be more open and free – more democratic – than social media?

Cornell brothers tackle hunger in Puerto Rico

“The youth hold the island deep within their hearts and can’t stand to see it suffer."

Graphene sensors find subtleties in magnetic fields

As with actors and opera singers, when measuring magnetic fields it helps to have range. Cornell researchers used an ultrathin graphene “sandwich” to create a tiny magnetic field sensor that can operate over a greater temperature range than previous sensors, while also detecting miniscule changes in magnetic fields that might otherwise get lost within a larger magnetic background.

Student researchers focus on cancer, obesity prevention

Students were awarded funding from the College’s Summer Experience Grant Program to help pay for living expenses.

Thai protestors demand ‘new moral compact’ with monarchy

About 10,000 demonstrators gathered in Bangkok, Thailand on Sunday to demand reforms, including of the monarchy, in a continuation of unrest that began earlier this year with the dissolution of the Future Forward Party. The Sunday protest is one of the largest anti-government protests in Thailand since 2014.

Applications open for Klarman fellowships

The three-year fellowships are available to early-career scholars conducting leading-edge research in any of the College’s discipline areas.

Should I Feel Guilty About Judging Kamala Harris?

As a woman running for vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris will inevitably face attacks on her attitude, ethics, and even the tone of her voice, writes Kate Manne, associate professor of philosophy, in an op-ed in The Atlantic. Voters must undergo the process of trying to hold her accountable without being unfair.

Exclusive group mating found for first time in Brazilian frogs

The lack of previous examples of group fidelity in frogs may be simply because the behavior is hard to observe.

Study: Machine learning can predict market behavior

Machine learning can assess the effectiveness of mathematical tools used to predict the movements of financial markets, according to new Cornell research based on the largest dataset ever used in this area.

Alumni startup: making student votes count

Juliana Bain ’20, Noe Abernathy ’20, and Devki Trivedi ’20 met during their first year at Cornell. Bain and Trivedi lived in the same dorm (floor 5 of High Rise 5), and Bain and Abernathy shared a house together for most of the next three years. Today, the trio are part of the core team behind Voteology, a startup focused on motivating college students to vote.

World Economic Forum features history professor’s analysis

Governments and businesses should strive to limit the use of economic sanctions, which have increased dramatically since the 1970s, advises Nicholas Mulder, assistant professor of history in the College of Arts and Sciences.