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Chemistry & Chemical Biology

Meeting the power of chemistry

Cornell Research

When 17-year-old Hendryck A. Gellineau applied to Cornell in 2014, he believed that having a strong understanding of biology would prepare him for medical school. Gellineau is one of the students featured in this Cornell Research story. He was also interested in drug development research and didn’t know what would help prepare him for it.

Chemistry & Chemical Biology

A first: Cornell researchers quantify photocurrent loss in particle interface

A&S Communications

With a growing global population will come increased energy consumption, and sustainable forms of energy sources such as solar fuels and solar electricity will be in even greater demand. And as these forms of power proliferate, the focus will shift to improved efficiency.

Psychology

Psychologists solve mystery of songbird learning

A&S Communications

Animal models give us insight into how humans learn language, but it turns out a favorite research model has been entirely misunderstood.

Economics

India can hide unemployment data, but not the truth

The New York Times

Kaushik Basu, the C. Marks Professor of International Studies, writes in this op-ed in The New York Times that despite India's attempts to mislead and hide unemployment data, the truth is that the country is in an unemployment crisis.

Public Humanities

Mellon-funded Rural Humanities initiative launches

Cornell Chronicle

A new project will leverage Cornell’s position in central New York to reinvigorate thinking about and engagement with rural communities and landscapes.

Performing & Media Arts

Question authority, beware false prophets in “Tartuffe”

A&S Communications

A deceitful, pious man abuses his professional status to defraud and swindle trusting citizens in “Tartuffe,” written by French playwright Moliere in 1664. This enduring play, which challenges ideas of authoritarianism and hypocrisy, is brought to life by Cornell students in a performance venture at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts February 14–16. ​

Performing & Media Arts

Student teams with alumna to produce touring musical

Performing & Media Arts

What would you do if you only had 100 days left to live? That’s the central question explored in the musical "Hundred Days"; Julia Dunetz '19 is associate producer and alumna Dana M. Lerner '14 is co-producer.

Student funding opportunities

Travel grant helps students explore the world

Ruth Bierman Linnick '60 loved to travel, to learn and to teach, so her family and friends established the grant as a tribute to these lifelong pursuits.

Physics

Nanoscale guitar string ‘executes a complex dance’

Cornell Chronicle

Researchers have devised a way to listen to a nanoscale guitar for the first time.

American Studies Program

Law that allows president to declare national emergencies needs to be repealed and replaced

The Hill

In a recent op-ed for The Hill, Professor Glenn Altschuler, the Thomas and Dorothy Litwin Professor of American Studies and Dean of Continuing Education and Summer Session, discusses the tendency of presidents to govern by declaring national emergencies, in light of President Trump's threat to declare a national emergency to construct a wall along the U.S. southern border.