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Alumni visits

‘Hill’ reporter, Tony-award winning director return to campus for talks

A&S Communications

The visits are part of the Becker Grant lectures, established in 1976, which help departments bring alumni to campus to share their experiences with students.

Warm hats being shared with new Puerto Rican students
Cornell outreach

Cornell community shares advice, warm hats with new Puerto Rican students

A&S Communications

Upperclass and graduate student mentors are helping the new students navigate Cornell.

Social Sciences

Sociologist to speak on inequality and stigmatization

A&S Communications

Economic inequality in advanced industrial societies has been growing in recent years, and so has the demand for recognition by stigmatized minority groups. Sociologist Michèle Lamont offers evidence of these intertwined facets of inequality and recommendations for public policy in her Feb. 2 talk, "Addressing the Recognition Gap: Destigmatization and the Reduction of Inequality."

Philosophy

In the era of #MeToo, philosopher’s new book explains misogyny

A&S Communications

Why do the patterns of misogyny persist, even in supposedly post-patriarchal parts of the world, like the U.S.? asks Kate Manne in her timely book, “Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny.”

Cognitive Science

Simpler grammar, larger vocabulary: a linguistic paradox explained

Cornell Chronicle

Languages have an intriguing paradox. Languages with lots of speakers, such as English and Mandarin, have large vocabularies with relatively simple grammar. Yet the opposite is also true: Languages with fewer speakers have fewer words but complex grammars.Why does the size of a population of speakers have opposite effects on vocabulary and grammar?

Neurobiology & Behavior

Lactation hormone cues birds to be good parents

Cornell Chronicle

Toppling a widespread assumption that a “lactation” hormone only cues animals to produce food for their babies, Cornell researchers have shown the hormone also prompts zebra finches to be good parents.

Neurobiology & Behavior

Fish study IDs genes that regulate social behaviors

Genes in an area of the brain that is relatively similar in fish, humans and all vertebrates appear to regulate how organisms coordinate and shift their behaviors, according to a new Cornell study.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Aye Lab takes its protein-assessing tool to the next level

Cornell Chronicle

In 2016, Yimon Aye, Howard Milstein Faculty Fellow and assistant professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, introduced the world to “T-REX” – a chemical method for targeting and modulating single proteins to analyze and screen for specific oxidation-reduction (redox) events, which are vital to many basic functions of life.

Education innovation

Zamudio to study effects of active learning as Menschel Teaching Fellow

Cornell Chronicle

Kelly Zamudio, the Goldwin Smith Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, will analyze the effects of activity modules on classroom learning goals as the 2017-18 Menschel Distinguished Teaching Fellow at Cornell.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Research probes key protein's role in cancer cell growth

Cornell Chronicle

Two new studies led by Hening Lin, professor of chemistry and chemical biology, offer new insights into oncogene RAS, the most frequently mutated gene of its type in human cancer.