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Alumni

‘Follow your north star:' Alumna shares career path from footwear reporter to Fortune magazine

A&S Communications

Leigh Gallagher said memorable classes focused on French literature, psychology, history and a treasure trove of English classes on Chaucer, Milton, Dreiser and Faulkner.

physics

Breakthrough made in atomically thin magnets

Cornell Chronicle

Cornell researchers have become the first to control atomically thin magnets with an electric field, a breakthrough that provides a blueprint for producing exceptionally powerful and efficient data storage in computer chips, among other applications.

mathematics

Math Awareness Month speaker to examine card games, patterns, computation

A&S Communications

Which patterns in data are meaningful, and which are inevitable due to the size of the dataset?

Humanities

Spring Environmental Humanities Lecture Series begins April 12

A&S Communications

Scholars in the new interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities argue that climate change, water security, environmental justice and other such challenges can’t be solved purely by economic and scientific solutions: Human culture is implicated in ecological conditions.The Spring 2018 Environmental Humanities Lecture Series will bring to campus two leading scholars in the field. All talks in the series are free and open to the public.

physics

Researchers pave an enlightened path to anyons and quantum computation

Cornell Chronicle

Their work provides a blueprint for future work involving other types of anyons and more complicated quantum states.

Student activism

A&S undergrad starts Hate Has No Home campaign on campus

A&S Communications

The campaign also encourages people to have conversations with people who don’t agree with them and listen to one another.

Computer science

Students' app helps users choose wardrobe based on weather

A&S Communications

Beyond Ithaca, the app has been downloaded in more than 70 countries.

Institute for Comparative Modernities

Speaker to address the roots of fascism in Europe

A&S Communications

On April 11, political theorist Eleni Varikas will speak on “The Colonial Genealogies of Fascisms in Europe" as part of the 2018 Institute for Comparative Modernities (ICM) New Conversations Series. The talk, at 4:45 pm in G22 Goldwin Smith Hall, is free and the public is invited.

Interdisciplinary

CSI announces new partnership to improve public discourse on inequality

A&S Communications

The project aggregates and summarizes peer-reviewed studies on various social scientific questions.

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Study shows long-term monitoring essential to effective environmental policy

A&S Communications

Environmental policy guided by science saves lives, money, and ecosystems. So reports a team of eleven senior researchers in Environmental Science and Policy. Using air pollution in the United States as a case study, they highlight the success of cleanup strategies backed by long-term environmental monitoring.