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Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Cornell joins battery research partnership

Cornell Chronicle

Chemist Geoffrey Coates will be part of the $120 million, five-year second phase of the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR), an interdisciplinary project aimed at realizing next-generation batteries.Coates and his team will investigate the polymerics that go into batteries.“By designing and building new polymers with molecular precision, we will enable

Molecular Biology and Genetics

Nobel laureate to give Racker Lecture Nov. 15

Cornell Chronicle

When the tantalizing scent of chocolate chip cookies wafts by, how does your mind know what it means? Nobel laureate Richard Axel will explain in his talk, “Scents and Sensibility: Representations of the Olfactory World in the Brain,” in Cornell’s annual Ef Racker Lecture in Biology and Medicine Thursday, Nov. 15, at 8 p.m. in Call Alumni Auditorium, Kennedy Hall. A reception will follow in Kennedy Atrium. The talk is free and open to the public.

Academics

Arts & Sciences faculty approve new curriculum

A&S Communications

“New categories reflect areas of real faculty and student interest, including data science, global citizenship and social difference.”

Music

The Hill is alive with the sound of (jazz) music

A&S Communications

Two students who specialize in jazz have received recent honors for their blend of passion, performance and academics.

Economics & Government

Global Grand Challenges event to spark faculty dialogue

Cornell Chronicle

What are the biggest threats facing inhabitants of Earth in the 21st century? A two-day symposium will bring together people from across the university for a dialogue on the “grand challenges” of a world that’s both more connected than ever and increasingly fractured.

Student experience

The ‘first-gen’ experience at Cornell

Ezra Update

The Posse program in the College of Arts & Sciences is a key initiative in Cornell's outreach to first-generation students.

Romance studies

Julia Chang: Confounding expectations

A&S Communications

As the child of immigrants, Chang understands what it feels like to be an outsider.

Student outreach

A&S students named United Nations Millennium Fellows

Students will work to advance the eight United Nations Millennium Development Goals, improving the lives of the world’s poorest people.

Student outreach

A&S students named Engaged Ambassadors

A&S Communications

Ambassadors support students working on community projects, coordinate outreach efforts and mentor students learning about leadership.

English

The non-confrontational question that helps men become feminists

Quartz at Work

The work of Mukoma Wa Ngugi, poet and associate professor of English, is featured in this Quartz article.