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Active learning

Professors, students laud active learning physics lab course

A&S Communications

Students said they gained confidence and discovered the pleasure of experimentation.

Mellon-Mays Fellows

Senior studies how architecture shapes community life

A&S Communications

Benjamin Montaño is exploring blueprints, legislation and other historical records about Mexico City's largest public housing community, built in the 1960s.

Government

Interpreting public opinion

Cornell Research

Vivekinan L. Ashok, a Cornell Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, is working with Peter K. Enns, associate professor of government, and other Cornell researchers, including Suzanne Mettler,The John L.

Government

How Southern politicians defended white supremacy — and made the South poorer

The Washington Post

Assistant Professor David Bateman writes with colleagues in this Washingon Post opinion piece about Southern politics before the Civil Rights movement and how the South paid a huge price for its commitment to white supremacy.

In Memoriam

Professor Emeritus David Henderson dies in accident

Cornell Chronicle

David Wilson Henderson, professor emeritus of mathematics, died Dec. 20 in Newark, Delaware, from injuries suffered when he was struck by a vehicle in a pedestrian crosswalk in Bethany Beach, Delaware. He was 79.According to published reports, Henderson was struck shortly after 5 p.m. on Dec. 19. After being taken to nearby Beebe Medical Center in Lewes, Delaware, Henderson was transported to Christiana Hospital in Newark, where he died the next day.

Mathematics & Computer science

Alumnus guides YouTube’s search process

A&S Communications

Math, CS major says he's always gravitated toward jobs that allow him to learn new skills and be challenged.

Psychology

Psychology professor named a 2018 APS Rising Star

Amy Krosch, assistant professor of psychology, has been named a 2018 Association for Psychological Science (APS) Rising Star, an award presented to outstanding APS members in the earliest stages of their research career post-PhD.

English

English professor publishes new edition of Jean Toomer’s “Cane”

The New York Times Book Review described the work as a “book for our times.”

Physics

Next-gen particle accelerator is aim of Bright Beams work

Cornell Chronicle

New research at Cornell is helping address current challenges and develop more efficient accelerators.

History

Permissible war

Cornell Research

How do nations decide when to go to war? What are the rules that govern when it is permissible to resort to war under international law? This Cornell Research profile of History Professor Isabel Hull explores her research into situations when war has been deemed permissible, specifically at what history tells us—the period 1814 to 1914 and the criteria known as jus ad bellum.