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Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Unraveling titanium dioxide’s self-cleaning ability

Titanium dioxide is one of several minerals that are self-cleaning; they use energy from the sun to convert any “schmutz” that lands on their surface to a harmless gas, which then floats away.

comparative literature

New book analyzes poetry across the world

A&S Communications

“What one cannot compute, one must poetize,” concludes a new interdisciplinary study of poetry.

History of Art

Slave ship image helped end slavery, new book shows

Cornell Chronicle

Art historian Cheryl Finley provides the first in-depth look at how the 18th-century slave ship schematic became an enduring symbol of black resistance, identity and remembrance.

Latina/o studies

Senior investigates Latinx identity formation in higher education

Karen Loya is studying the way U.S. universities influence and support their Latinx students.

Engaged learning

Premed students explore diverse medical interests in summer program

A&S Communications

“Students become participant observers, carrying out an ethnographic inquiry of the culture and practice of medicine."

Student internships

A&S student combines CS, government interests in White House internship

A&S Communications

Graham Cohen '20 built an app for the Executive Office of the President of the United States.

Student research

MMUF scholar explores intersection between African, Asian cultures

A&S Communications

"The intersections of cultures has always fascinated me because I live at one of those intersections.”

History

Field research leads to surprising results for historian

Cornell Chronicle

Some research just has to be done on-site, said historian Mostafa Minawi, and he should know.Thanks to an ANAMED fellowship, he spent seven months in Sudan, Turkey, the United Kingdom, Somalia and Djibouti, tracking down details for his new book on Ottoman/European/Ethiopian competition over the coast of Somalia. The most surprising thing he found, he said, was how alive that history still is in some areas.

Romance Studies

Professor Timothy Campbell receives AAIS book prize

A&S Communications

Timothy Campbell, professor of Romance studies, has been awarded the 2017 American Association for Italian Studies (AAIS) prize in film and other media studies for his recent book, “Technē of Giving: Cinema and the Generous Form of Life.”

Social Sciences

Tech companies favor CU social science grads

A&S Communications

The tech world is realizing the importance of a new definition of diversity – that of fields of study.