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Archaeology

New radiocarbon cycle research may alter history

Cornell Chronicle

“We went looking to test the assumption behind the whole field of radiocarbon dating.”

Anthropology

Enhanced e-book calls for public interaction with central banking

Cornell Chronicle

The 2008 financial crisis was a watershed moment for the world’s central banks and their central bankers. Long seen as old boys’ clubs of bland technocrats, they suddenly found themselves in newspaper headlines and the speeches of populist politicians. The debates were not about standard central banking fare – tweaking interest rates to manage inflation – but equality, fairness and democracy.

What Makes Us Human? Podcast

Podcast looks at planning for climate change

A&S Communications

“Building Resilience,” a new episode of the “What Makes Us Human” podcast series, examines how to build resilient communities in the face of environmental and economic upheaval.

Humanities Podcast

Building Resilience

This is an episode from the “What Makes Us Human?” podcast's second season, "Where Is the Human in Climate Change?" from Cornell University’s College of Arts & Sciences, showcasing the newest thinking from across the disciplines about the relationship between humans and the environment. Featuring audio essays written and recorded by Cornell faculty, the series releases a new episode each Tuesday through the spring.

Alumni support

Grant supports student’s research in Germany

A&S Communications

With the help of a Summer Experience Grant from the College of Arts & Sciences, Rachel Diao ‘19 will be able to take advantage of a research opportunity in Cologne, Germany this summer. Diao, a biological sciences major, is working with Dr. Adam Antebi, managing director of a lab at the Max Planck Institute for the Biology of Ageing.

Economics

How can societies become law-abiding? Kaushik Basu has some suggestions

Cornell Chronicle

The book offers an analytical structure with which to analyze laws and understand why they get poorly implemented.

Outreach

Prison education program graduates 16 at Five Points

Cornell Chronicle

The first graduating class of Five Points Correctional Facility inmates in the Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP) received their degrees to congratulations and cheers at a recent ceremony.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Catalysis—Focusing in to see the action

Cornell Research

This Cornell Research story focuses on the work of Rong Ye,  one of the first Cornell Presidential Postdoctoral Fellows, who is working in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology.

Faculty-student mentoring

Carpenter Advising Awards presented to four faculty members

Cornell Chronicle

Four Cornell faculty members have received Kendall S. Carpenter Memorial Advising Awards, which recognize sustained and distinguished contributions of professorial faculty and senior lecturers to undergraduate advising. The awards were established by Stephen Ashley ’62, MBA ’64, in honor of his adviser, Kendall S. Carpenter, a professor of business management at Cornell from 1954 until his death at the age of 50 in 1967.

Mars Rover on dirt
Astronomy

Mars is suddenly more interesting

CNN

Jonathan Lunine, the David C. Duncan Professor in the Physical Sciences and director of Cornell’s Center for Astrophysics and Planetary Science, discusses recent discoveries on Mars in this CNN Online story.