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Alumni

’52 alumnus who skipped senior year for med school finally receives diploma

A&S Communications

Dr. David Murray, part of the crew and fencing teams, hoped to finish in three years by taking summer classes, and then got into nine medical schools.

Neurobiology & Behavior

Regeneron CEO named Cornell Entrepreneur of the Year

Cornell Chronicle

Leonard Schleifer '73, who majored in biological sciences, founded Regeneron in 1988, one of the world's leading biotechnology companies.

Astronomy

Saturn’s icy rings reveal another secret: they’re young

Cornell Chronicle

Data from the NASA spacecraft Cassini show that Saturn’s rings may have been created when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

Psychology

Scientists tackle breeding challenges of land mine-finding rats

A&S Communications

Thousands of people – many of them children – are hurt or killed by land mines each year, so finding these devices before they explode is critical.

Sociology

Streaming chill vibes? Spotify data says the season is the reason

A&S Communications

Are you a night owl? Do you live in the north? New research finds our music choices are influenced by time of day, season, and even gender.

Alumni

Company Man

Cornell Athletics

Andy Potash ’66 knows how to stay busy. It started at Cornell, where he was a two-sport varsity athlete playing both sprint football and lacrosse, while also being in a fraternity and serving as the senior class president. Prior to his final year on East Hill, he worked a summer internship with Bayly, Martin, & Fay (now part of AON) and accepted a job with the company immediately following graduation.

English

Two win Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prizes

A&S Communications

The 2018 winners of the Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature have been announced by Abdilatif Abdalla, chair of the prize’s board of trustees.The fiction prize winner is Tanzanian writer Zainab Alwi Baharoon, for "Mungu Hakopeshwi." The poetry category winner is Kenyan author Jacob Ngumbau Julius, for “Moto wa Kifuu.”Baharoon and Julius will each receive $5,000 awards. The prizes will be awarded in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania on Feb. 15.

Latina/o Studies

Zine project features voices in the Latinx community

Faculty from Cornell and Ithaca College worked with community partners to create Bien Acompañada Press, which released its first edition this month.

American studies

When the State of the Union (address) is poisonously partisan

The Hill

In a recent op-ed for political magazine, The Hill, Professor Glenn Altschuler of American History at Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences discusses the historical tranistion of the political use of the State of the Union address.

Mathematics

Math prof uses optimal control, game theory to attack cancer cells, move pedestrians, plan paths for robots

A&S Communications

Alex Vladimirsky is the type of mathematician who draws inspiration from real-world problems. This was one of his main reasons for joining Cornell, where interdisciplinary collaborations are both valued and encouraged.